The Contributions of Creative Cognition and Schizotypal Symptoms to Creative Achievement

Autor/in	Armstrong, David
Titel	The Contributions of Creative Cognition and Schizotypal Symptoms to Creative Achievement
Quelle	In: Creativity Research Journal, 24 (2012) 2-3, S.177-190 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-0419
DOI	10.1080/10400419.2012.677329
Schlagwörter	Creative Thinking; Schizophrenia; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Achievement; Problem Solving; Creativity Tests; Statistical Analysis; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Multiple Regression Analysis; Canada; Remote Associates Test; Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreatives Denken; Schizophrenie; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Performance; Leistung; Problemlösen; Creativity test; Kreativitätstest; Statistische Analyse; Ausland; Fragebogen; Kanada
Abstract	Although previous research has suggested that people with subclinical levels of schizophrenic symptoms achieve a greater number of creative accomplishments, the contention that there is a creative cognitive advantage in schizotypy has received mixed support. It was hypothesized that accounting for complex relationships between (a) creative cognition abilities (moderated relationships), and (b) creative cognition and schizotypy variables (mediated, moderated, and curvilinear relationships) would significantly increase the ability to predict creative performance and provide a more accurate survey of the schizotypic creative cognitive advantage. One hundred and fourteen participants completed a creative problem solving measure, measures of cognitive creative abilities (Remote Associates Test, a divergent thinking task, and a deductive reasoning task) and measures of positive and negative symptoms of schizotypy. Regression analyses supported the conception of a multistage process in which creative cognition variables interact with each other to predict performance on a creative problem solving task. There was no evidence of a creative cognitive advantage in schizotypy: People high in schizotypy performing the same or worse than people reporting few schizotypic symptoms on measures of creative cognition and creative problem solving performance. If people with schizotypy are, indeed, more creative than those without, it is because of factors other than the cognitive processes surveyed in this investigation. (As Provided).
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