Predicting creativity from early to late adulthood: Intellect, potential, and personality

By Gregory J. Feist, F. Barron. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Creative days: A daily diary study of emotion, personality, and everyday creativity. (2015, background): “…measure creative thought (Silvia, Nusbaum, Berg, Martin, & O’Connor, 2009), pursue creative hobbies (Wolfradt & Pretz, 2001), choose college majors and careers that let them express creativity (Silvia & Nusbaum, 2012), and have more creative achievements across the lifespan (Feist & Barron, 2003).”
Scientific Talent, Training, and Performance: Intellect, Personality, and Genetic Endowment (2008, methodology): “The samples used in many of the studies in Feist’s (1998) review are likely more select than the samples used by Gough (1987).”
Cantankerous creativity: Honesty–Humility, Agreeableness, and the HEXACO structure of creative achievement (2011, background): “Feist and Barron (2003) found that several positive interpersonal traits (e.g., low deceitfulness, likeability, and sense of humor) predicted higher creative achievement, a pattern that they noted was inconsistent with prior findings on arrogance and hostility.”
The Contribution of Personality Traits, Motivation, Academic Risk-Taking and Metacognition to the Creative Ability in Mathematics (2015, background): “…of mathematical ideas, thoughts, and problem-solving strategies, as consistent with studies reporting significant positive relation between openness to experience and creative performance (Feist, 1998; Feist & Barron, 2003; McCrae, 1987; Schoenfeld, 1992; Sung & Choi, 2009; Wolfradt & Pretz, 2001).”
Mapping Dimensions of Creativity in the Life-Space (2009, background): “Sometimes, creativity has been operationalized in terms of memberships in organizations that indicate achievement in one’s profession (e.g., National Academy of Sciences; Feist & Barron, 2003).”
Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as Predictors of Personal and Public Achievement: A Fifty-Year Follow-Up (2010, methodology): “With the 1998 follow-up, one index of adult creative achievement was derived from the questionnaire responses—the number of publicly acknowledged creative achievements (Millar, 2002, p. 38). Torrance (1981b) found very high predictive validity (multivariate) correlations (.”
How Development and Personality Influence Scientific Thought, Interest, and Achievement (2006, background): “Many of these findings stem from data on the flexibility (Fe) and tolerance (To) scales of the California Psychological Inventory (Feist & Barron, 2003; Garwood, 1964; Gough, 1961; Helson, 1971; Helson & Crutchfield, 1970; Parloff & Datta, 1965).”
Preservice Teachers' Personality Traits and Engagement in Creative Activities as Predictors of Their Support for Children's Creativity (2014, background): “A longterm longitudinal study found that openness to experience assessed at age 27 was a predictor of men’s lifetime creative accomplishments assessed at age 72 (Feist & Barron, 2003).”
General, Artistic and Scientific Creativity Attributes of Engineering and Music Students (2007, methodology): “Prospects for identifying creativity attributes among scientists, as well as artists, have been explored periodically by various authors (Feist, 1999; Feist and Barron, 2003; Helson 1996), and have indicated a need for further investigation of creativity in these two cultures.”
Creative and critical thinking: Independent or overlapping components? (2018, background): “Although there is considerable evidence that creative ability predicts creative achievement (Feist & Barron, 2003; Runco, Millar, Acar, & Cramond, 2010; Wechsler, 2006), there is a consensus that personality traits, such as openness to experience, as well as cognitive characteristics, are…”