Do dimensional psychopathology measures relate to creative achievement or divergent thinking?
| dc.contributor.author | Zabelina, Darya L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Condon, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Beeman, Mark | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-24T17:37:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-24T17:37:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | 11 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Previous research provides disparate accounts of the putative association between creativity and psychopathology, including schizotypy, psychoticism, hypomania, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and autism spectrum disorders. To examine these association, healthy, non-clinical participants completed several psychopathology-spectrum measures, often postulated to associate with creativity: the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, the Psychoticism scale, the Personality Inventory for DSM-5, the Hypomanic Personality Scale, the Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder scale, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient. The goal of Study 1 was to evaluate the factor structure of these dimensional psychopathology measures and, in particular, to evaluate the case for a strong general factor(s). None of the factor solutions between 1 and 10 factors provided a strong fit with the data based on the most commonly used metrics. The goal of Study 2 was to determine whether these psychopathology scales predict, independently, two measures of creativity: 1. a measure of participants' real-world creative achievements, and 2. divergent thinking, a laboratory measure of creative cognition. After controlling for academic achievement, psychoticism and hypomania reliably predicted real-world creative achievement and divergent thinking scored with the consensual assessment technique. None of the psychopathology-spectrum scales reliably predicted divergent thinking scored with the manual scoring method. Implications for the potential links between several putative creative processes and risk factors for psychopathology are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01029 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27178 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Frontiers in Psychology | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | Do dimensional psychopathology measures relate to creative achievement or divergent thinking? | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |