Creativity, primary process cognition and personality

Author(s): Dailey, A.

Journal/Book: Pers Indiv Differ. 1996; 20: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England OX5 1GB. Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd. 409-414.

Abstract: Potential creativity as measured by the Alternate Uses Test, remoteness of word associations, and rated creativity of fantasy stories was found to be related to primary process content in written fantasy stories. Psychoticism and openness to experience have been found to be related to creativity. There are theoretical reasons to think that they might also be related to use of primary process cognition. However, neither potential creativity nor primary process content were significantly correlated with either psychoticism or openness to experience. An exploratory factor analysis, though, suggests that creativity, primary process cognition, extraversion, and psychoticism are interrelated. The common train linking them together may be disinhibition.

Note: Article C Martindale, Univ Maine, Dept Psychol, Orono, ME 04469 USA

Keyword(s): SPECIALIZATION; THINKING; OPENNESS; CONTEXT

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