The chosen article discloses openness as a personality trait that is a major factor in obtaining new experiences throughout the lifespan that broaden the perception of the inner and outer worlds. The authors describe how its’ development changes in response to different events and how numerous activities are thought to cause alterations in the degree of openness, which varies depending on each stage of life.
Such alterations are connected to one’s background, which makes people more or less susceptible to new experiences, whereas the development of Big Five personality traits is essential for everyone. Intellectual curiosity is one of the most essential traits in a person willing to obtain new knowledge and experience; it fundamentally defines one’s motivation and future success regardless of the matter they study. Observations, thinking, and consultations are considered the major elements of intellectual activity in this study; it means that these components affect one’s will to grasp new information. The experiment was conducted among students learning the English language, showing that the majority of participants were reluctant to acquire new data due to a lowered level of intellectual curiosity.
The study reveals the findings of an experiment related to team members’ attitudes toward diverse population groups in their collaborative work and how their perception affects the creativity of the entire group. The results show that the leader’s intellectual stimulation mitigated the imperative influence of openness to diversity on constructive criticism and the indirect impact on the team’s creativity through the same process. The mediating role of constructive criticism was established as the main finding of this study – the more critically active the leader is, the more creative results the team achieves.
References
Asmin, A. (2020). Observing the intellectual curiosity of English education students in the class. IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, 8. Web.
Pan, W., & Sun, L.-Y. (2019). Openness to diversity and team creativity: the role of leader intellectual stimulation. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), 14747–14747. Web.
Trapp, S., & Ziegler, M. (2019). How openness enriches the environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1123. Web.