The Relations of Gender and Personality Traits on Different Creativities: A Dual-Process Theory Account
@article{Lin2012TheRO, title={The Relations of Gender and Personality Traits on Different Creativities: A Dual-Process Theory Account}, author={Wei-Lun Lin and Kung-Yu Hsu and Hsueh-Chih Chen and Jenn-wu Wang}, journal={Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts}, year={2012}, volume={6}, pages={112-123} }
In the present study we examine the ways in which gender and personality traits are related to divergent thinking and insight problem solving. According to the dual-process theory account of creativity, we propose that gender and personality traits might influence the ease and choice of the processing mode and, hence, affect 2 creativity measures in different ways. Over 300 participants’ responses on the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (Chen, 2006), HEXACO Personality Inventory (Ashton…
73 Citations
ifferent attentional traits , different creativities
- Psychology
- 2013
This study examines the relationships between two aspects of “breadth of attention” (orienting sensitivity and effortful control) and two forms of creativity (divergent thinking and insight…
Defining Characteristics of Creative Women
- Psychology
- 2013
This study was an effort to identify correlates of creativity in women. A sample of 447 college students were given the picture completion subtest of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, the How…
Intelligence, personality and schizotypy as predictors of insight
- PsychologyPersonality and Individual Differences
- 2018
Gender Differences in the Distribution of Creativity Scores: Domain-Specific Patterns in Divergent Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
- PsychologyFrontiers in Psychology
- 2021
The present findings extended the research of greater male variability in creativity by showing that men generally exhibited greater variance than women in the overall distribution of the creativity scores in both divergent thinking and creative problem solving, despite trivial gender differences in mean scores.
A Cross-Sectional Study between Creativity and Personality of Elementary, Middle and High School Students
- Psychology
- 2015
Abstract Personality traits have been considered as one of the stable predictors having significant correlations withcreativity, although there is lack of study figuring out whether those…
The interactive effects of associative response priming and personality traits on insight problem solving over time
- PsychologyJournal of Global Education and Research
- 2020
Priming effect is, in a great part, an implicit learning mechanism; it may influence insight problem solving both consciously and unconsciously. The present study investigates interactions between…
Gender and creativity: an overview of psychological and neuroscientific literature
- PsychologyBrain Imaging and Behavior
- 2015
The article ends with a detailed discussion of the idea that differences between men and women in creative cognition are best explained with reference to the gender-dependent adopted strategies or cognitive style when faced with generative tasks.
Sex differences and similarities in negative creativity
- PsychologyPersonality and Individual Differences
- 2019
How does emotion influence different creative performances? The mediating role of cognitive flexibility
- PsychologyCognition & emotion
- 2014
The results showed that positive emotional states could reduce switch costs and enhance both types of creative performances, but cognitive flexibility exhibited a full mediating effect only on the relationship between positive emotion and insight problem solving, but not betweenpositive emotion and divergent thinking.
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 90 REFERENCES
Individual Differences in Ideational Behavior: Can the Big Five and Psychometric Intelligence Predict Creativity Scores?
- Psychology
- 2010
This study explored the extent to which ideational behavior (IB; Runco, Plucker, & Lim, 2000–2001), an indicator of creativity, is related to established individual differences in personality traits…
Why can't a man be more like a woman? Sex differences in Big Five personality traits across 55 cultures.
- PsychologyJournal of personality and social psychology
- 2008
Overall, higher levels of human development--including long and healthy life, equal access to knowledge and education, and economic wealth--were the main nation-level predictors of larger sex differences in personality.
Measurement Invariance of Divergent Thinking Across Gender, Age, and School Forms
- Education, Psychology
- 2009
The present study explores the factorial structure and the degree of measurement invariance of 12 divergent thinking tests. In a large sample of German students (N = 1328), a three-factor model…
Gender differences in personality traits across cultures: robust and surprising findings.
- Psychology, SociologyJournal of personality and social psychology
- 2001
Secondary analyses of Revised NEO Personality Inventory data from 26 cultures (N = 23,031) suggest that gender differences are small relative to individual variation within genders; differences are…
Self-Reported Differences in Creativity by Ethnicity and Gender
- Psychology
- 2006
Creativity assessment has been proposed as a supplement to intellectual testing, in part because of reduced differences by ethnicity; creativity testing might also specifically help reduce stereotype…
Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research
- Psychology
- 1992
Part 1. Introduction. N.B. Barenbaum, D.G. Winter, History of Modern Personality Theory and Research. Part 2. Theoretical Perspectives. D.M. Buss, Human Nature and Individual Differences: Evolution…
Interpreting personality profiles across cultures: bilingual, acculturation, and peer rating studies of Chinese undergraduates.
- PsychologyJournal of personality and social psychology
- 1998
Study 1, with a sample of bilingual Hong Kong students, showed that prior findings were not due simply to the translation, and 2, with undergraduates of European and Chinese ancestry living in Canada suggested that more of the differences were cultural in origin.
Creativity: Theories and Themes: Research, Development, and Practice
- Psychology
- 2006
An integrative introduction to the theories and themes in research on creativity, the second edition of Creativity is both a reference work and text for courses in this burgeoning area of research.…
Creativity, Intelligence, and Personality: A Critical Review of the Scattered Literature
- Psychology, ArtGenetic, social, and general psychology monographs
- 2006
The authors consider the relation between personality and creativity in the context of Eysenckian 3-factor and 5-factor models of personality and with reference to DT tests and ratings of creativity.
The Relationship of Creativity Measures to School Achievement and to Preferred Learning and Thinking Style in a Sample of Korean High School Students
- Education
- 1995
Two major purposes of this study were to ascertain for a sample of 193 11th-grade Korean high school students (92 males and 101 females) the extent to which performance in selected measures of…