TY - JOUR
T1 - Creative Achievement and Individual Differences
T2 - Associations Across and Within the Domains of Creativity
AU - Zabelina, Darya L.
AU - Zaonegina, Elina
AU - Revelle, William
AU - Condon, David M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by Grant SMA-1419324 from the National Science Foundation to William Revelle and David M. Condon and by Grant RFP-15-04 from the Templeton Foundation to Darya L. Zabelina and David M. Condon
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 American Psychological Association
PY - 2021/10/25
Y1 - 2021/10/25
N2 - We investigated the relationships between creative achievement, cognitive ability, temperament, and vocational interests using a large and diverse Internet-based sample. Ten creative domains (visual arts, music, creative writing, dance, drama, architecture, humor, scientific discovery, inventions, culinary arts) were positively associated with higher cognitive ability, intellect, and extraversion and lower agreeableness. Regarding cognitive ability, there was no evidence for the threshold effect on achievements. Regarding age, younger individuals endorsed a greater number of low-level achievements and older individuals endorsed more high-level achievements across the 10 creative domains. Other characteristics of individual differences (e.g., vocational interests) were more domain-specific for predicting creative achievement. We also introduce a revised method for the assessment and scoring of creative achievements and discuss suggestions for future research.
AB - We investigated the relationships between creative achievement, cognitive ability, temperament, and vocational interests using a large and diverse Internet-based sample. Ten creative domains (visual arts, music, creative writing, dance, drama, architecture, humor, scientific discovery, inventions, culinary arts) were positively associated with higher cognitive ability, intellect, and extraversion and lower agreeableness. Regarding cognitive ability, there was no evidence for the threshold effect on achievements. Regarding age, younger individuals endorsed a greater number of low-level achievements and older individuals endorsed more high-level achievements across the 10 creative domains. Other characteristics of individual differences (e.g., vocational interests) were more domain-specific for predicting creative achievement. We also introduce a revised method for the assessment and scoring of creative achievements and discuss suggestions for future research.
KW - Big five
KW - Cognitive ability
KW - Creative achievement
KW - Threshold hypothesis
KW - Vocational interests
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U2 - 10.1037/aca0000439
DO - 10.1037/aca0000439
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118884364
SN - 1931-3896
VL - 16
SP - 618
EP - 636
JO - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
JF - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
IS - 4
ER -