To create means to bring something into existence. Consequently, the word creative refers to a person who have acquired the ability to create. Since creativity sprains from individuals, psychologists have attempted to find other personality traits that might be associated with creativity in an individual. Feist (1998) noted that the field of personality psychology and creativity emphasize the distinctiveness of an individual, and focus on fairly stable traits that elicit the individual 's originality. He stated that it is the constancy in the personality traits that allow traits to accumulated into prototype of a personality. Feist (1998) acknowledged creative thought or behavior need to original and be socially useful or adaptive in order
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For this meta-analysis he used empirical findings to classify a trait items into one of the Five Factor Model (FFM dimensions), extraversion, agreeableness, consciousness, neuroticism, and openness. He used the strongest effect sizes of traits, published in empirical studies, that used different personality inventories such as California Psychological Inventory (CPI) and the sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), Eysenck psychoticism scale (EPQ), FFM. Furthermore each of those items were divided into positive and negative dimensions, in a total of ten categories. An item could either be in the category for C+ or C- for consciousness. C+ represented items such as careful, cautious, self-controlled, conscientious, orderly, responsible and while C- contains items such as direct expression of needs, psychopathic deviant. Although this method was useful heuristic for standardization the scales of various inventories, it had limitations. For example a traits such as warmth from the 16PF and psychoticism from Eysenck psychoticism scale EPQ which could be applied to more than one of the personality dimensions from FFM were eliminated. Effect sizes were measured using Cohen’s d, in which effects size of .20 is considered small, .50 medium, and .80 …show more content…
He noted those with creative ability do not fixate themselves to one perspective, rather are open to different perspectives ideas people and situations. They have wide range of thoughts and feelings, in which the combination of cognitive openness helps them to create novel and useful ideas of problem solving strategies. Furthermore, the third disposition is motivation. Individuals with creative abilities tend to be more ambitious, motivated, and show perseverance to accomplish their goals. Even though some may have original and creative ideas, if those ideas are not expressed in a lasting medium they could be forgotten. Lastly, he noted that creative individuals tend to have high levels of anxiety and emotional sensitivity. They have the ability to express deep emotions that resonate with other individuals. Nevertheless, this sense of uneasiness might be related psychosis and mental illness among creative
For this meta-analysis he used empirical findings to classify a trait items into one of the Five Factor Model (FFM dimensions), extraversion, agreeableness, consciousness, neuroticism, and openness. He used the strongest effect sizes of traits, published in empirical studies, that used different personality inventories such as California Psychological Inventory (CPI) and the sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), Eysenck psychoticism scale (EPQ), FFM. Furthermore each of those items were divided into positive and negative dimensions, in a total of ten categories. An item could either be in the category for C+ or C- for consciousness. C+ represented items such as careful, cautious, self-controlled, conscientious, orderly, responsible and while C- contains items such as direct expression of needs, psychopathic deviant. Although this method was useful heuristic for standardization the scales of various inventories, it had limitations. For example a traits such as warmth from the 16PF and psychoticism from Eysenck psychoticism scale EPQ which could be applied to more than one of the personality dimensions from FFM were eliminated. Effect sizes were measured using Cohen’s d, in which effects size of .20 is considered small, .50 medium, and .80 …show more content…
He noted those with creative ability do not fixate themselves to one perspective, rather are open to different perspectives ideas people and situations. They have wide range of thoughts and feelings, in which the combination of cognitive openness helps them to create novel and useful ideas of problem solving strategies. Furthermore, the third disposition is motivation. Individuals with creative abilities tend to be more ambitious, motivated, and show perseverance to accomplish their goals. Even though some may have original and creative ideas, if those ideas are not expressed in a lasting medium they could be forgotten. Lastly, he noted that creative individuals tend to have high levels of anxiety and emotional sensitivity. They have the ability to express deep emotions that resonate with other individuals. Nevertheless, this sense of uneasiness might be related psychosis and mental illness among creative