Abstract
Despite the significance and effectiveness of numerous studies, the role and relationship of internal (psychological) and external (environmental) factors in the development of creativity at the stage of studying at a university are not clearly determined. The conducted study aims to analyze the psychological prerequisites for the development of a person’s creativity at student age. The study tests the hypothesis that students demonstrating a higher level of creativity have several individual psychological features including genetically predetermined ones. The deployed psychodiagnostic methods include the “creativity” scale of the Self-actualization diagnostic questionnaire “SAMOAL” (A.V. Lazukina, as adapted by N.F. Kalin), “Questionnaire for diagnostics of the dominating instinct” (V.I. Garbuzov); the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI), and “The method of diagnostics of the learning style parameters” (A. Soloman, R. Felder). The obtained results provide for a more precise description of the psychological portrait of a student with high creativity level as well as indicate the presence of genetically predetermined factors of predisposition to the development of creativity as a creative attitude towards life.
Highlights
The changes taking place in the modern world and the multitasking nature of the professional activity of a modern person call for the development of such a personal characteristic of a future specialist as creativity.Creativity is viewed as a person’s innovative readiness for changes and firmly associated with “social and economic progress” [1: 3]
The analysis of the obtained data demonstrates that the groups of students with an average level of creativity (48.3%) and a high level of creativity (37.9%) are the most represented in the sample
The group of students demonstrating a low level of creativity is represented insignificantly (13.8%)
Summary
The changes taking place in the modern world and the multitasking nature of the professional activity of a modern person call for the development of such a personal characteristic of a future specialist as creativity.Creativity is viewed as a person’s innovative readiness for changes and firmly associated with “social and economic progress” [1: 3]. The changes taking place in the modern world and the multitasking nature of the professional activity of a modern person call for the development of such a personal characteristic of a future specialist as creativity. Many researchers believe that there are natural foundations of a person’s creativity lying in the structure of instincts and needs. According to C.G. Jung, “...human activity is significantly influenced by instincts completely independent of the rational motivation of consciousness” [3: 73]. Creativity as a factor of a person’s activity and behavior presents a biological resource (instinct) modified within the structure of personality by means of individual characteristics of the psyche [4]. Examining needs in the context of creativity research, we hypothesize that there is a positive relationship between the creative nature of the psyche and the masculine needs of an individual
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