A STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTUITION AND CREATIVITY

Abstract

Main problem. At the moment, in post-Jungian personality typologies (socionics and MBTI) there are a lot of conflicting hypotheses regarding the intuition / sensory scale.Purpose. Purpose of this article was to testing the content of the Intuition/Sensing scale of Jungian personality types and, namely, the relationship between the Intuition pole and Imagination and Foresight.Methods. For this purpose, we have performed a correlation analysis of typological scales and the scales of the creative thinking model by Williams and the thinking styles model by Epstein.Results and their significance. The results of the analysis demonstrate a statistically significant relationship between the Intuition pole and Imagination. Consequently, it manifests itself in the fact that Intuitive people are more creative than Sensing types people. The Intuition/Sensing scale did not show any correlation with thinking styles by Epstein. According to Epstein, Intuitive thinking style correlateswith the Ethics pole, and Rational thinking style —with the Logic pole. These conclusions are also supported by the relationship between Intuitive thinking style by Epstein and high levels of Emotional Intelligence as measured with the RMET questionnaire. Another important result of this study is the examination of relationship between level of Creativity and Intuitive or Rational thinking styles by Epstein. The results of analysis have shown that high levels of Creativity correlate with high values of both Intuitive and Rational thinking. This suggests that people with a highly developed thinking ability, regardless of its style, are more creative.