Individual differences in creativity: personality, story writing, and hobbies

Wolfradt, Uwe; Pretz, Jean E.

doi:10.1002/per.409

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“…Thus, we would expect Openness to be associated with online academic activities. Openness is also associated with creativity and different hobbies (Wolfradt & Pretz, 2001); we thus expect it to be related to online leisure activities. Openness has also been found to be correlated with risk-taking for gains (Lauriola & Levin, 2001).…”

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Personality and Internet usage: A large-scale representative study of young adults

Mark

Ganzach

2014

Computers in Human Behavior

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a b s t r a c tStudies that have examined the relationship between personality and Internet use so far were largely conducted on the basis of small, non-representative samples, and have yielded conflicting results. In the current study we estimate the relationship of the Big 5 personality traits and Internet use in a large nationally representative U.S. sample of over 6900 young adults with average age of 26. Our results suggest that global Internet use is positively related to Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Conscientiousness. We also examine the relationship of the Big 5 with online communication, leisure, academic, and economic activities. Extraversion is correlated with the most different Internet activities. Our findings contrast with many of the relationships found in previous research which have used small, homogeneous samples. We discuss these differences in term of the size and type of samples which were used in previous research, in terms of the time periods of Internet development in which the research was conducted, and in terms of the Internet activities which were measured.

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Personality and Internet usage: A large-scale representative study of young adults

Mark

Ganzach

2014

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…A widely accepted personality framework is the "big five personality model", which contains five personality traits, namely, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience (Barrick and Mount 1991;Rothmann and Coetzer 2003). Individuals with a high extraversion trait are considered to be more creative with more intuition and many divergent ideas (Costa and McCrae 1985;Digman and Inouye 1986;Stavridou and Furnham 1996;McCrae and Costa 1997;Wolfradt and Pretz 2001;Furnham and Bachtiar 2008). Feist (1998) According to McCrae and Costa (1987), openness can be described as the willingness of an individual to work on new ideas, curiosity, exploration of the world and others inner ideas.…”

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A model for innovation in higher education

Jakovljević

2018

SAJHE

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An extensive research and awareness about the role of innovation at education exist, but insight is missing regarding an individual frame of innovation of how to empower an individual towards life-long innovation activities. There is no adequate model that provides a holistic approach to innovation in academic institutions.This article explores multiple innovation issues culminating in the development of a model for innovation from an individual perspective.This article argues that awareness and the dynamics of individual innovation is missing in academic environments. Academics' engagements in innovation endeavours are scarce; there are visible symptoms of deeply embedded social, institutional, cultural and individual factors of innovation. This requires a holistic approach in innovation research.Awareness of an individual's potential and his/her innovation development cycles, external and internal dynamics can contribute to multiple innovation sustainability. These are pillars of the ORED model (observation, revelation, exploration, design) and ever expanding cycles for innovation.

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“…For example, McCrae (1987), showed that the trait 'openness' interacts with the process of divergent thinking in order to make creative production possible. Other authors show that extraversion (Wolfradt & Pretz, 2001) and psychoticism (Eysenck, 1993) are positively and strongly associated with creativity. Amabile's work theorised that extrinsic motivation is insufficient for creativity (Amabile, 1983(Amabile, , 1998(Amabile, , 1996 whereas interest in the activity itself is much more likely to facilitate it.…”

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The nature of creativity: cognitive and confluence perspectives

Mégalakaki

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Cremin³

2018

EJREP

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In the present psychology-informed literature review we address some aspects of the nature of creativity from cognitive and confluence perspectives. The authors begin by discussing models of creativity offered by cognitive and confluence approaches, focusing on the transition from univariate to multivariate models. The article explores what these literatures suggest about factors that can influence creativity, including cognitive conative and environmental ones. The article goes on to present the overlaps and distinctiveness between creativity and innovation and the vexed question of the evaluation of creativity exploring two contrasting stances of psychometric and componential approaches. The review concludes by acknowledging the complexity of the phenomenon of creativity explored here mainly through cognitive and confluence lenses touching on psychometric and social-personality approaches, and recognizes the potential of other lenses in psychology such as psychodynamic, humanistic and evolutionary, for understanding creativity.Keywords: creativity, cognitive, confluence, complexity. Received La naturaleza de la creatividad: perspectivas cognitivas y confluencia ResumenEn la presente revisión de la literatura acerca de la psicología informativa abordamos algunos aspectos de la naturaleza de la creatividad desde perspectivas cognitivas y de confluencia. Los autores comienzan hablando de modelos de creatividad obtenidos por enfoques cognitivos y de confluencia, centrándose en la transición de modelos univariados a multivariados. El artí-culo explora en la literatura que se sugiere acerca de los factores que pueden influir en la creatividad, incluyendo la cognitiva conativa y la relacionada al medio ambiente. Luego presentamos las similitudes y diferencias entre la creatividad y la innovación, y la controvertida cuestión acerca de la evaluación de la creatividad, explorando dos posturas contrapuestas; los enfoques psicométricos y componenciales. Esta revisión concluye reconociendo la complejidad del fenómeno de la creatividad explorado aquí principalmente a través de una mirada cognitiva y de confluencia, tocando los enfoques psicométricos y sociales de la personalidad, y reconoce el potencial de otras miradas de la psicología, como la psicodinámica, la humanistica y la evolucionaria, para entender la creatividad.

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Individual differences in creativity: personality, story writing, and hobbies

Cited by 259 publications

References 40 publications

Personality and Internet usage: A large-scale representative study of young adults

Personality and Internet usage: A large-scale representative study of young adults

A model for innovation in higher education

The nature of creativity: cognitive and confluence perspectives

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