Openness to experience, plasticity, and creativity: Exploring lower-order, higher-order, and interactive effects.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Paul Silvia, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: What are creative people like? Openness to experience is important to creativity, but little is known about plasticity, the higher-order factor that subsumes openness. College students (n = 189) completed measures of the Big Five and measures of creative cognition (fluency and quality of divergent thinking), everyday creative behaviors, creative achievement, and self-rated creativity. Latent variable models found broad effects of openness to experience and few effects of the other four domains. At the higher-order level, plasticity predicted higher scores on nearly all of the facets of creativity, and stability had several significant effects. For some creativity measures, plasticity and stability had opposing effects. Tests of latent interactions found no significant effects: plasticity and stability predict creatively independently, not jointly.
Openness to experience, plasticity, and creativity: Exploring lower-order, higher-order, and interactive effects.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Research in Personality. Article in Press at present.
- Language: English
- Date: 2010
- Keywords
- Creativity, Openness to experience, Personality, Big Five, Plasticity