The creative thinking and ego functioning of children

Dudek, Stéphanie Z.; Verreault, René

doi:10.1080/10400418909534301

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“…Pine and Holt (1960) reported that flexibility scores from the uses tests were related to adaptive regression ratings from a Ror schach. This is important because it supports the hypothesis that both primary and secondary processes are involved in creativity, but what is critical is effective modulation of the two (Dudek & Verreault, 1989). Suler (1980) hypothesized that creativity is a "special form of interaction between primary and secondary pro cess thinking in which a novel idea or insight is generated by the loose, illogical, and highly subjective ideation of primary process and is then molded by secondary process into a context that is socially appropriate and meaningful to others" (p. 144).…”

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“…The primary processes have been described as crude, primitive, nonlogical, drive and affect driven, inspirational, egocentric, pleasure-oriented, and an alogical mode of thought. These are different from secondary processes, which are associated with socialized, reality-oriented, logical, practical, realistic, analytic, elaborative, synthetic thinking (Dudek & Verreault, 1989;Pine & Holt, 1960).…”

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Thinking in multiple directions: Hyperspace categories in divergent thinking.

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Runco²

2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Previous empirical studies of divergent thinking (DT) have measured originality by identifying ideas that are unusual or remote but not necessarily divergent. The present investigation used the same kind of open-ended tasks as previous investigations but operationalized scores to capture truly and literally divergent ideas. To this end, 13 dimensions were identified and used to categorize ideas from six DT tasks. These 13 categories represented a kind of ideational hyperspace and insured that actual divergence of thought was captured. Interitem and interrater correlations indicated that 11 of the 13 hyperspace categories were reliable. Furthermore, the tendency to give a large number of ideas within each category was positively associated with originality and fluency. When fluency was statistically controlled, several of the categories (i.e., impractical, synthetic, breadth, non-natural, infeasible, playful, and remote) were positively related with originality, whereas the complementary categories (e.g., practical, nonsynthetic, depth) were negatively related to the originality of both verbal and figural DT. A composite Literal Divergent Thinking (LiDT) Index, calculated by taking all categories into account, was positively associated with attitudes about originality, even after fluency was statistically controlled. The present effort was the first investigation of LiDT and both limitations and direction for future research are explored. Given the reliability of the new LiDT scores, future research should be conducted to determine whether or not LiDT will predict creative thinking more accurately than the traditional indices of DT.

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Thinking in multiple directions: Hyperspace categories in divergent thinking.

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Runco²

2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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“…In addition, the mood disordered individuals who have achieved "success" are apt to have important strengths required for this success, including good ego function (Cropley, 1990;Dudek & Verrault, 1989;Flach, 1990;Rothenberg, 1990)-at least at the time of creation. Such strength, along with a range of relevant talents and skills, will all have been selected at once with the eminence criterion.…”

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Everyday creativity, eminent creativity, and health: “Afterview”; for CRJ Issues on creativity and health

Richards

1990

Creativity Research Journal

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“…Research reveals that men not only tend to be more physically aggressive (Buss & Perry, 1992), but become more aggressive under stress (Verona & Curtin, 2006), dream more about acts of physical aggression (BlumeMarcovici, 2010), have greater personal interests in violent topics such as militarism (Egan & Campbell, 2009), and are less sympathetic about the suffering of others (Lee, 2009b), than women. Additionally, boys have been found to provide more aggressive content on the Torrance Test of Creativity (Dudek & Verreault, 1989). Although the gender disparity was found with malevolent creativity, these findings must be tempered by the fact the magnitude of the differences was relatively small.…”

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