Work harder and smarter: The critical role of teachers’ job crafting in promoting teaching for creativity

This study investigated the mediating role of teachers' job crafting in the relationship between the satisfaction of their basic psychological needs and self-reported performance in teaching for creativity (TfC). The participants were 1886 teachers from China. The structural equation modelling and bootstrapping results revealed that the association between teachers' basic need satisfaction with self-reported TfC were mediated by teachers' behaviour in increasing structural job resources, optimising demands, and decreasing demands. Teachers’ behaviour in increasing challenging job demands was related only to product-oriented TfC, and behaviour that increased social job resources was not linked to either product- or process-oriented TfC.