Creative types and personality
Abstract
The present study aimed to identify types of creative activities and to examine which personality traits differentiate these behavioral types. Participants reported their activities concerning creative life-style, artistic creativity, and intellectual achievement. Also, they completed measures of personality traits concerning whole personality, emotions and motivation, cognition, social expression, and self-regulation. Five types of individuals were identified based on the profiles of creative activities in which they participated: conventional, everyday creative individuals, artists, scholars, and renaissance individuals. One set of traits distinguished conventional from other groups (traits general to different kinds of creativity) and another set of traits distinguished scholars from other groups (traits specific to one kind of creativity). Implications for the study of creative personality and development of creativity are discussed.
Department
Psychology
Publication Date
9-1-2006
Journal Title
Imagination, Cognition, and Personality
Publisher
Sage
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Ivcevic, Z. & Mayer, J. D. (2006). Creative types and personality. Imagination, Cognition & Personality, 26, 65-86.