The Impact of Personality on Creativeness and Concentration

Abstract

Personality has a profound and wide-ranging effect on individuals. This article discusses the impact of personality on individual creativeness and concentration levels. By analyzing past articles in psychology journals, it was found that the Openness/Intellect factor among the Big Five factors is consistently correlated with creativeness, regardless of how it was measured. Extroversion is inconsistently correlated with creativeness, and exhibits significant correlations only when the task measures verbal creativity or the fluency of divergent thinking skills. Personality is also correlated with concentration levels. The conscientiousness factor among the Big Five factors is consistently positively correlated with concentration levels, while neuroticism is negatively correlated with concentration. All experiments conducted in the research papers use different methods to test their hypothesis, and the results vary slightly according to the scale and the measurements being used. This paper provides integrative evidence for further understanding of the effects of personality on creativity and concentration.