Recent studies have shown that formal mentoring support plays a vital role in protégés’ creativity. The psychological mechanisms linking formal mentoring support to protégés’ creativity and its boundary conditions, however, are less clear. To fill this gap, this study aims to examine how and when formal mentors exert their impact on protégés’ creativity, drawing upon a self-regulatory perspective. By using 231 ongoing mentor–protégé dyads in China, our results indicate that protégés’ feedback seeking from mentors mediates the rel...
