创造动机理论评述

Reviews on the theories of the Creative Motivation

动机是各种行为、活动的直接推动力,创造活动是人类活动的一种,和所有活动一样,需要创造动机的激发和维持。创造动机是人类诸多动机中的一种动机,由于它是人类独有的,又具有深刻的社会性,所以它最能体现人的本质。创造动机从何而来一直是心理学研究者们争论的焦点,许多心理学家从各自的学派立场出发,对此问题进行了研究,提出了不同的理论观点。但就世界范围来说,对创造动机的研究却十分薄弱。

Motivation is the impetus of all kinds of acts and activities. As a human activity,creative activity,like all the other activities,needs the stimulation of creative motivation,which is one of various human motives that belongs only to human beings and bears deep impress of the society and therefore reflects the human nature to the greatest degree. Where the creative motivation comes from has been the point at issue of the psychologists,many of whom,according to their own school,have researched the issue and raised respective viewpoints. But in the whole world,such kind of researches still leave us vast space to continue studying.