Creativity and Mental Health

Boredom as an Antagonist of Creativity

“…The Journal of Creotive Behavior since maladjustment is also correlated with creativity. In another series of papers (Schubert & Biondi, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, we have indicated that there is little to support this idea and much to suggest that the people who are better adjusted are also the ones who are more creative. In one of these studies, we found that the very same test which showed maladjustment in the late 1960's also showed that such maladjustment scores were related to low creativity scores on problem-solving tests.…”