Abstract
Awe is an emotional response to vast stimuli transcending the current schema (e.g., beautiful nature). Previous studies on the relationship between awe, curiosity, and creativity have focused on the between person relation, but have not investigate on the within person relation. In the present research, we measured twenty-something people’s dispositional awe, curiosity, and creative self at two points with a four-month interval and examined the relationship between change in each variable within individuals using a latent change score model (N = 257; mean age = 26.10, sd = 3.17, 183 females). Mediation analysis using bootstrapping methods (N = 10,000) indicated that change in dispositional awe positively predicated change in curiosity, which in turn positively predicated change in creative self (indirect effect: b = 0.18, 95%CI [0.09, 0.29]). The result of the present study suggests that awe promotes creativity through increased curiosity, from the perspective of within person change.
