According to much of the extant research, the conferral of high-status serves as an invaluable muse for creativity. That is, the research has suggested that high-status affords individuals the confidence, freedom, and leeway necessary to bolster creative performance. However, this assertion is premised on the view that status hierarchies are stable and thereby the conferral of high-status is irrevocable. In reality, ample research evidence has asserted that status hierarchies are often unstable, and hence, high-status is not immutable. Consequently, there is a need to revisit the capacity of high-status to bolster creativity under conditions of status instability. Our theoretical paper draws upon the socio-cultural perspective of creativity, in order to develop a conceptual framework that identifies how status instability can, in fact, impede creative behavior of high-status individuals. The liability of high-status can arise via its impact on risk tolerance, perceived autonomy, and intrinsic/extrinsic reward orientation. Our framework also acknowledges how the individual trait of creative self-efficacy can mitigate the negative impact of status instability. The research propositions we present alongside our framework are intended to guide future research in exploring the role of status in the generation of radical, creative behavior.

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识别明星的双刃剑：地位不稳定背景下的高地位和创造力

根据现有的大部分研究，授予高位是创造力的宝贵缪斯。也就是说，研究表明，高地位为个人提供了增强创造性表现所需的信心、自由和回旋余地。然而，这种说法的前提是地位等级是稳定的，因此高地位的授予是不可撤销的。事实上，大量的研究证据表明，地位等级往往是不稳定的，因此，高地位并不是一成不变的。因此，有必要重新审视高地位在地位不稳定的情况下增强创造力的能力。我们的理论论文借鉴了创造力的社会文化视角，以制定一个概念框架，确定地位不稳定实际上如何能够 阻碍地位高的人的创造性行为。高地位的责任可能通过其对风险承受能力、感知自主性和内在/外在奖励取向的影响而产生。我们的框架还承认创造性自我效能的个人特征如何减轻地位不稳定的负面影响。我们与我们的框架一起提出的研究命题旨在指导未来的研究，探索地位在产生激进、创造性行为中的作用。