Personality characteristics which differentiate creative male adolescents and adults¹

Abstract

Creabve performance is generally viewed as a consequence of a complex mteracbon among such vanables as cogmbve capacibes, specific personahty charactensbcs, and mtercurrent environmental mfluences. Increasingly, the behef has grown among tiiose who are parbcularly concemed with the role of personahty that creabve performance is stimulated, facihtated, and mamtamed by the presence of a rather hmited and specifiable set of personahty characterisbcs and pattems shared by all creabve men If there were m fact a strong and stable associabon between creabvity and personahty traits from childhood to adulthood then we could more confidentiy identify potenbally creabve mdividuals and could more effectively foster their development in order that their creabve capacities might be given the fullest expression.Independent surveys of the hterature concerning relationships between personahty and creativity have been performed by Stein (1962) and Barron (1965). They report that the more creabve individual is differenbated from his less creabve peer in that he is more asserbve, forceful, and aggressive, less mhibited and less convenbonal, more bohemian, more radical, and more resistant to pressures toward conformity m thinkmg; lower m authontanan values, more highly mobvated and self-disciphned, higher in impulse control, more persistent, higher m energy output, more construcbvely cnbcal and less contented, 1 We wish to express our grabtude to Barry Wolfe, Ann Drake, Jean Carter, and Claude Southerly for their assistance m gathenng and processmg these data We are mdebted to Drs Karen Pettigrew and Samuel Greenhouse for their advice and aid m performmg the statistical analyses

Creativity, Intelligence, and Personality

“…fi ne artists vs applied artists) lest intradomain differences cancel one another out and badly obscure overall fi ndings. Important studies in which the role of domain has been explicitly considered have also been reported by Parloff et al (1968); Anastasi & Schaefer 1969;Schaefer 1969aSchaefer ,b,c and 1972bSchaefer ,c, 1973Schaefer & Anastasi 1968;Helson 1968a;Rossman & Hom 1972;Korb & Frankiewicz 1979. It should be noted in this context that Schaefer's studies of biographical inventory correlates of creativity led him to develop fi eld-specifi c creativity scales (Schaefer 1970a) for his inventory.…”

“…In an analysis of personality correlates associated with creativity in adolescent and adult men, Parloff et al (1968), for example, identified a factor they called "D isciplined Effectiveness" which correlated positively with indices of creative achievement in their adolescent males and negatively with indices of creative achievement in their adult males. This reversal was discussed at some length in terms of the relative importance of impulse control at certain stages of personal and professional development.…”

“…SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Personality correlates of scientific achievement and creativity were studied in elementary school children (Milgram et al 1977); high school students (Schaefer & Anastasi 1968, Parloff et a1 1968, Anastasi & Schaefer 1969, Schaefer 1969a,b, Walberg 1969a; undergraduates, young adults, and graduate students (Rossman & Hom 1972, Schaefer 1973, Gough 1979, Korb & Frankiewicz 1979; psy chologists (Chambers 1964, Wispe 1965, Bachtold & Werner 1970; inven tors (Bergum 1975, Albaum 1976, Albaum & Baker 1977; mathematicians (Helson 1967b(Helson , 1968aParloff et al 1968;Helson & Crutchfield 1 970a,b;Helson 1971;Gough 1979); chemists (Chambers 1964); and assorted engi neers and research scientists (McDermid 1965, Owens 1969, Bachtold & Werner 1972, Bergum 1973, Eiduson 1974, Gough 1979.…”

Investigating Scientific Creativity Level of Seventh Grade Students

“…Amateur creative individuals are people who are at primary or secondary schools that can be more creative than their peers (Liang, 2002). Research has proven that students who have become experienced during their school times by making scientific experiments by their own attempts are more creative in their later professional lives (Parloff, Datta, Kleman, & Handlon, 1968;Segal, Busse & Mansfield, 1980;Mumford, Supinski, Baughman, Costanza & Threlfall, 2005;Simonton, 2008). It may not give correct results when scientific creativity is measured by measures prepared for measuring general creativity (Liang, 2002).…”

Personality Model of Fine Artists

“…Correspondence and requests for reprints should be sent to Debdulal Dutta Roy Several studies have shown that the personality characteristics of creative artists vary with age (Parioff, Datta, Kleman, & Handlon, 1968), and several have found sex differences (Barron, 1972;Block, Block & Harrington, 1975;Getzels & Csikszentmihalyi, 1976;Schaefer, 1969). The present study collected data only from male experienced fine artists.…”