Creative Profile Research Articles

О предикторах негативной креативности у взрослых на примере курсантов

The work is aimed at clarifying the contribution of moral identity and Machiavellianism as predictors of negative creativity. Negative creativity is the solution of a legitimate task, as a result of which unintentional harm was inflicted on others. To prevent such an impact on others, it is important to understand which personal characteristics are predictors of behavioral manifestations of negative creativity. The materials of an empirical study obtained on a sample of cadets of one of the universities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (N=277 people, 200 of them men, the average age is 20 years) are presented. We used questionnaires adapted from the Russian sample of Mac IV and NEO-FFI; as well as moral ideality (K. Aquino and A. Reed, II). To diagnose negative creativity, the scales ‘Lies’ and ‘Evil Jokes’ of the questionnaire ‘The Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale’ (Hao et al.) were used. Research hypothesis: the key characteristics of the negative creativity profile of adults (on the example of cadets) are Machiavellianism and low values of moral identity. According to the results, the ability to control one's own impulses and the internalization of moral qualities developed at the average level, as well as high Machiavellianism and average self-control ability, are predictors of negative creativity and risk components. The novelty of the results obtained is that in the case of negative productivity, it is important to take into account not the low development of positive characteristics (conscientiousness and moral identity), but the average values.

Autism, autistic traits and creativity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Psychometric, historiometric and psychiatric studies are controversial on a hypothetical link between psychopathology and creativity. In this study, we will try to contribute to this debate by analysing the case of autism. Is there a relationship between autism and creativity? If so, can we find the same relationship in a watered-down form in subjects with autistic traits? In order to answer these questions, we carried out a systematic literature review of the studies on this topic published in the last 10years. We followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. We also conducted a meta-analysis of data. We found that in the clinical population there are fewer creative performances than in control groups; nonetheless, it is possible to delineate a medium creative profile of subjects with autism. The average creative profile of people with autism shows that they are inhibited in fluency and flexibility, but that they display a high level of detail and a particularly high level of originality in works either generated during tests or created in private time. In particular, the level of detail reached in the latter condition seems to be higher in the autistic population than in the control groups. Better linguistic skills appear to be linked to better creative performances. Linguistic tests, if compared with visual and performative tests, seem to favour the expression of originality in subjects with autism. Although our data on autistic traits are compatible with the hypothesis that a high level of autistic traits is a watered-down replica of the cognitive profile of subjects with autism, we have no sufficient data to support this hypothesis.

Assessment of Creative Potential of Staff at Service Organizations on the Basis of “Creative Al Pari”

This paper considers the concept of professional creativity as the ability of staff to express intended creativity in given conditions in order to achieve certain goals. The article also examines methodological features of assessment of professional creativity which makes up the basis of creative potential at an organization in the conditions of digitalization. The authors conclude that it is necessary to improve the existing analytical tools to boost the efficiency of staff management. Key parameters of professional creativity assessment are substantiated: flexibility, originality, curiosity, interdisciplinary erudition, systems thinking, cross-industry communication. The research suggests an assessment methodology of “creative al pari” (compatibility of creative potential with a profile of professional creativity) on the basis of key parameters that include four following stages: preparation of k-assignments and profiles of professional creativity at certain positions; evaluation of k-assignments performed by staff members and development of their professional creativity portrait; selection of candidates for their future inclusion in staff reserve in accordance with their grades or for hiring ones due to minimum deviations from standard figures defined for the vacancy. This paper discovers specific features of the individual “creative al pari” assessment, based on utility function, aa well as the “creative al pari” assessment in the organization. The latter, in its turn, allows to establish an absolute, conditional or critical discrepancy between creative potential of staff and a profile of professional creativity at the organization. As a result of the research, the authors make a conclusion about the possible areas to apply the developed technique. They include: recruitment process, formation of staff reserve, recertification or training in service organizations.

Radical and Incremental Creativity Profiles: Associations with Work Performance and Well-Being

Previous studies have focused on exploring the factors that influence employees’ 2 distinct types of creativity, i.e., radical and incremental creativity, while very little attention has been paid to the outcomes of creativity and how the two types of creativity interact within individuals. The present study addresses this issue by adopting both variable-centered (correlation) and person-centered (latent profile analysis) approaches for three samples of supervisor- employee dyads data from China (n = 159, 213, and 273). Using variable-centered analysis in sample 1, general creativity was positively associated with the four work performance dimensions, while there was no significant correlation between creativity and well-being. Using person-centered analysis, five very similar creativity profiles were found across samples 2 and 3 based on employees’ radical and incremental creativity. These five classes differed in work performance dimensions and well-being, with classes characterized by a high level of incremental creativity profiles reporting a higher level of well-being and classes characterized by a high level of both incremental and radical creativity profiles reporting a higher level of the four work performance dimensions. The results of the present study contribute to uncover the potential outcomes related to employees’ creativity by identify distinct profiles of creativity types.

Radical and incremental creativity: associations with work performance and well-being

PurposePrevious studies have focused on exploring the factors that influence employees' two distinct types of creativity, that is, radical and incremental creativity, while very little attention has been paid to the outcomes of creativity and how the two types of creativity interact within individuals.Design/methodology/approachThe present study addresses this issue by adopting both variable-centered (correlation) and person-centered (latent profile analysis) approaches for three samples of supervisor–employee dyads data from China (n = 159, 213 and 273).FindingsUsing variable-centered analysis in sample 1, general creativity was positively associated with the four work performance dimensions, while there was no significant correlation between creativity and well-being. Using person-centered analysis, five very similar creativity profiles were found across samples 2 and 3 based on employees' radical and incremental creativity. These five classes differed in work performance dimensions and well-being, with classes characterized by a high level of incremental creativity profiles reporting a higher level of well-being and classes characterized by a high level of both incremental and radical creativity profiles reporting a higher level of the four work performance dimensions.Practical implicationsManagers are suggested to focus on factors that could promote employees' incremental creativity if they want to have happier and highly performing employees, and they could also focus on factors that could aid employees who may experience costs when engaging in radical creative activities.Originality/valueThe results of the present study contribute to uncover the potential outcomes related to employees' creativity by identifying distinct profiles of creativity types.

Слідами «Білої Панни»: про одну сторінку діяльності Євгенії Ярошинської як перекладачки та її контекст

The article highlights the creative profile of the Ukrainian writer Yevhenia Yaroshyns’ka (1868–1904) as a translator. Literary science has not touched upon this topic yet. The only exception is her translations of the Czech writer and teacher Vilma Sokolova. Speaking about Y. Yaroshyns’ka’s interest to the literature of other nations, we state that it was organically connected with her great love for reading. That array was naturally dominated by German translations of the world literature. Joining this activity seemed tempting, because it was also a way to gain experience, to test her own strength and the opportunity to promote the problems of the Ukrainian reality. This is the main reason for Y. Yaroshynska’s appeal to create the German translation of Hryhoriy Machtet’s novel «The White Lady» based on the Ukrainian material. The article clarifies the life and activities of this Ukrainian and Russian writer and his connections with the Ukrainian socio-cultural environment, which also led to the autobiographical aspect of the story. The work is full of sympathy for the participants of the Polish uprising of 1863 and the desire for peaceful understanding between the Slavs. At the same time, it was based on a romantic collision. To obtain the permission to publish the translation, Y. Yaroshyns’ka addressed M. Pavlyk who asked in Moscow Nestor Yavorovs’kyi, apparently the Ukrainian student (from the circle of A. Kryms’kyi), who helped the writer to realize her idea. In the article the letters of N. Yavorovs’kyi and H. Machtet to Y. Yaroshyns’ka are published for the first time and their destiny is outlined. When they got to M. Pavlyk, he prepared them for publication, but they never saw the light. The further fate of the translation of «The White Lady» remained unknown. The article names the published examples of Y. Yaroshyns’ka’s translation activity (these are the translations from Bulgarian, Norwegian, Czech languages). The need for a more comprehensive study of this important and interesting topic is also required. The article touches upon the importance to intensify the efforts of scholars to master the body of archival documents related to Y. Yaroshyns’ka. They are stored mainly in the Department of Manuscripts and Textology of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv and the V. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library. Obviously, only in this way – having thoroughly studied the source base, knowing the author’s biography and her artistic heritage – we can hope for deeper understanding of the peculiarities of the development of her creative personality.

Student Creativity through Project-based Learning Experiences

This study aims to analyze students’ creativity through project-based learning experiences in a electrochemistry topic. Subject of this study was 40 students from Chemistry Education Study Program who took basic chemistry course. Students experienced several activities, namely: forming groups of three, asking and refining questions, debating ideas, making predictions, designing plans and/or experiments, collecting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, communicating their ideas and findings to others, asking new questions, and creating artifacts like a model, a videotape, or a media. Then, the lecturer monitored the students and the progress of the project, assessed the outcome and evaluated the experience resulting students-in group’ creativity profile. Research instruments are project assessment rubrics and observation sheets. Findings show that students’ creativity in groups ranges from less to very good or from 48.15 to 92.59. Although there are still shortcomings with this study, we encourage other lecturers to implement this type of learning model in other courses or subjects in order to improve students’ problem solving skills.

An empirical study of the peculiarities of verbal and figurative creativity in adolescence

The article presents the detailed analysis of the phenomenon of creativity of the individual as a complex, multifaceted, heterogeneous phenomena, leading to a range of theoretical and experimental areas of study. It was analyzed two approaches to the definition of this phenomenon: the concept of creativity as universal cognitive creative abilities and the direction of research examining creativity from a position of identity of the personal characteristics of creative. It is substantiated the urgency of its research and development in adolescence: due to the natural flexibility, active rejection of stereotypes, seeking self-improvement, formation of self-perspective, the specified age period is considered to be one of the most sensitive for the development of creativity as a personal quality. It was empirically established the peculiarities of the structural profile of creativity in adolescence, with verbal and figurative batteries of creativity test by E. Torrance. The test is based on G. Guildford’s theory of divergent thinking and is considered a classic one in the field of psycho-diagnostics of creativity. It diagnoses the peculiarities of verbal creativity (reliably demonstrates the overall creativity of the individual), its qualitative originality through the analysis of the creative abilities structure (expression levels of performance data, flexibility and originality). It also identifies the peculiarities of personality’s creative potential through the analysis of the total indicator of figurative creativity and its partial indicators (productivity, originality, elaboration, resistance to closure). It was revealed that the averaged total and partial indicators of verbal creativity are at the level below the norm (except partial measure of verbal originality). This result indicates a rather low capacity of the studied adolescents to generate ideas of solving problems in verbal form. The expressed ideas are monotonous, one-dimensional, slightly original. The averaged total and partial indicators of figurative creativity of the subjects are at the level of norm. In non-verbal form, the respondents express a sufficient number of original ideas, which are quite detailed. It was found that among the studied adolescents there are those who have a heterogeneous structure of both verbal and figurative creative skills. It was not detected the creatives in the sample of adolescents. It was determined the necessity of conducting work on the development of creativity as ability to create in the subjects of adolescence.

Increased creative thinking in narcolepsy.

Some studies suggest a link between creativity and rapid eye movement sleep. Narcolepsy is characterized by falling asleep directly into rapid eye movement sleep, states of dissociated wakefulness and rapid eye movement sleep (cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis, rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder and lucid dreaming) and a high dream recall frequency. Lucid dreaming (the awareness of dreaming while dreaming) has been correlated with creativity. Given their life-long privileged access to rapid eye movement sleep and dreams, we hypothesized that subjects with narcolepsy may have developed high creative abilities. To test this assumption, 185 subjects with narcolepsy and 126 healthy controls were evaluated for their level of creativity with two questionnaires, the Test of Creative Profile and the Creativity Achievement Questionnaire. Creativity was also objectively tested in 30 controls and 30 subjects with narcolepsy using the Evaluation of Potential Creativity test battery, which measures divergent and convergent modes of creative thinking in the graphic and verbal domains, using concrete and abstract problems. Subjects with narcolepsy obtained higher scores than controls on the Test of Creative Profile (mean ± standard deviation: 58.9 ± 9.6 versus 55.1 ± 10, P = 0.001), in the three creative profiles (Innovative, Imaginative and Researcher) and on the Creative Achievement Questionnaire (10.4 ± 25.7 versus 6.4 ± 7.6, P = 0.047). They also performed better than controls on the objective test of creative performance (4.3 ± 1.5 versus 3.7 ± 1.4; P = 0.009). Most symptoms of narcolepsy (including sleepiness, hypnagogic hallucinations, sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, and rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder, but not cataplexy) were associated with higher scores on the Test of Creative Profile. These results highlight a higher creative potential in subjects with narcolepsy and further support a role of rapid eye movement sleep in creativity.

Mathematical creativity profile of elementary school students in solving mathematical problems by considering technology role

This study was aimed to describe mathematical creativity of elementary school students in solving mathematical problems by considering technology role in mathematics learning process in the classroom. Data collection technique was done by giving questionnaires to students and providing creativity tests on the components of fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. The research subjects were 34 fifth graders at one of elementary schools in Palangkaraya. Based on the results of the creativity test, the results showed that 30% of students were able to produce various ideas or questions (fluency), 10% were able to express various solutions (flexibility), 2% were able to provide relatively unique new ideas or answers, 15% were able to specify the answers they wrote in detail (elaboration). Based on the questionnaires results, the results of the study showed that the role of technology was still in a minimum category. It is recommended to integrate technology in mathematics learning process in order to improve students’ mathematical creativity in solving mathematical problems.

Relationships between artistic movements and careers of modern artists: evidence from hedonic regressions with auction data

The now-substantial literature on the career age-valuation profiles of artists has paid limited attention to the effects on the profiles of association with artistic movements. There are nonetheless many reasons why association with a more or less well-defined movement can be important for the career dynamic of an artist. The relation between careers and movement association has been studied by Accominotti (Poetics 37:267–294, 2009), who works with data on numbers of reproductions in art history books. The hedonic analysis of auction data in this area is limited, with results of regressions of pooled groups of artists being reported, for example, by Hellmanzik (Journal of Cultural Economics 33:201–232, 2009) and Hodgson (Journal of Cultural Economics 35:287–308, 2011). We undertake a hedonic regression analysis using a large data set on recent auction prices for nearly 300 important modern painters. We focus on the possible contribution to career creativity profiles of movement association in the context of pooled regressions where movement-specific effects are included in addition to pooled age effects, for such major movements as Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop Art. We also consider the effects of association with different categories of movements, whether artist-defined or critic- or historian-defined. In order to gauge the degree of intra-movement heterogeneity in creativity profiles, we also estimate a specification in which individual-artist profiles are added.

Creative utterances about person-centered care among future health care professionals are related to reward dependence rather than to a creative personality profile

BackgroundCreativity can be defined as the creation of something that is novel, useful, and valuable for society (i.e., high-level creativity) and/or everyday life. In this context, people have implicit theories of creativity as being either non-malleable (i.e., a fixed creative mindset) or malleable (i.e., a growth creative mindset). Our aim was twofold: (1) to test an improved creative mindset priming paradigm (i.e., adding high-level/everyday creativity perspectives and using an organizational important task) by assessing if participants used different ways to answer to the prime and (2) to analyse the relationship between personality and creative utterances regarding an important topic in participants' future professions. MethodStudents (N = 73) from different health care professions were randomly assigned to the non-malleable or malleable creative mindset priming paradigm (i.e., fixed vs. growth) and then asked to write about (a) their own creativity, (b) person-centered care in their professions (i.e., unusual use test), and to (c) self-rate their personality (Temperament and Character Inventory). We used natural language processing methods (i.e., Latent Semantic Algorithm) to analyse participants' responses in the different conditions and also responses in relation to self-reported personality. ResultsThe fixed versus growth condition was predicted (r = .55, p < 0.0001), following Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons by participants' descriptions about creativity. Although the condition was not predicted (r = .07, p < 0.2755) by participants' utterances about person-centered care, a t-test suggested that participants used words that were semantically different depending on the condition they were randomly assigned to (t(2371) = 5.82, p = .0000). For instance, participants in the growth condition used verbs more frequently, while those in the fixed condition used the personal pronoun I more often. Finally, only the temperament trait of reward dependence (r = .32, p < 0.01) predicted the person-centered care utterances. ConclusionWe argue that the paradigm successfully primed participants to write about creativity and person-centered care using narratives with different semantic content. However, individuals' ambition to be socially accepted, rather than creative personality traits, elicited the utterances about person-centered care. The creative mindset priming paradigm presented here along language processing methods might be useful for measuring creative potential at work. We suggest that if health care personnel's notions of the activities related to care are generated from their drive to be socially accepted and not from a truly creative profile, the activities might be self-serving and not person-centered.

Поведенческие особенности негативной и антисоциальной креативности на примере подростков

We present the results of research of relationship of antisocial creativity, negative and prosocial creativity in social interaction and their behavioral predictors. The sample consisted of 97 students in grades 9–10 (71 of them boys). We used the questionnaires "The malevolent creativity behavior scale" (adapted by N.Meshkova et al.), Bass-Perry, Machiavellianism, NEO-FFI, "Portrait value questionnaire of Schwartz – revised PVQ-R, Emotional intelligence and social situations to identify prosocial and negative creativity in social interaction. Hypotheses about a) the relationship of malevolent creativity and low self-control («Conscientiousness»); b) emotional intelligence, Machiavellianism, the features of "Agreeableness", aggression and behavioral characteristics of malevolent creativity; c) the negative relationship of emotional intelligence with fluency of harmful decisions in prosocial situation; d) the relationship between fluency in prosocial situation and situation of lies, have been confirmed. The psychological profile of malevolent and negative creativity are described. The directions of further research are proposed.

Guitar activity of Ukrainian physician Mykhailo Polupaienko

Ukrainian guitarist Mykhailo Polupaienko's persona is investigated in order to make creative profile of this musician. To achieve the objective was collected biographical data, repertoire and composers portfolio, information about connections of the guitarist with other musicians. Contemporary guitar handbooks and photos of the musician and his colleagues were also subjects of investigation in order to figure out features of his guitar techniques. Hypothesis about dr. Polupaienko's fingering principles were proposed, along with definition of general stylistic direction of his repertoire. Lot of attention were put to design peculiarities of his guitar, analyzed hypothesis about origin of the instrument and luthier identity. It is proven based on collected data that dr. Polupaienko belongs to school of J. Decker-Schenk, Petersburg's guitarist of Austrian origin. Specific features of guitar technique of J. Decker-Schenk's school and it's representative dr. Polupaienko are discovered. It is perspective to further investigate pieces and arrangements by dr. Polupaienko as it will help to detect features and peculiarities of his composing approach.

Recruiting valuable participants in online IDEA generation: The role of brief instructions

Recruiting qualified participants becomes challenging in crowdsourcing initiatives that seek to attract a diverse crowd based upon an open call for participation online. Brief instructions often constitute the first contact point between the company and potential contributors. This research investigates how the design of brief instructions intervenes in the recruitment of people with highly creative profiles. The results from a survey and an experimental research indicate a triple-interaction effect between individuals' level of creativity and the design of instructions (number of instructions and provision of an expected example). These findings may encourage crowdsourcing organizers to provide sufficient instructions to attract people with highly creative profiles, especially when using prospective briefs. Moreover, while constraining briefs reduces the intention to participate for individuals who are reward-oriented, greater instructional constraints do not reduce the intention to participate and emotional engagement for intrinsically motivated contributors. The study results contribute to the marketing literature by understanding the underlying psychological role of brief instructions.

Creativity and Translation Quality: Opposing Enemies or Friendly Allies?

In recent years, placing the translator’s agency at the fore of creativity research has drawn the scholars’ attention towards the need to define the role of individual personality traits in creativity in the translation process. But many questions still remain as to the role that a creative personality may play in the translation process and the final quality of translation performance. The study proposed here specifically aims to investigate the consequences of a creative profile for translation performance. The experiment correlates the scores of forty Spanish professional translators on a validated creativity personality test with their scores on product indicators of creativity. Translations were rated for accuracy and creativity by two different examiners. Results of the study suggest that creative intelligence plays a role in guiding translational behaviour, directing the translator’s attention and fostering flexible thinking, but does not necessarily guarantee higher quality in terms of number of translation errors.

The unfashionable cultural worker? Considering the demography and practice of artists in Greater Western Sydney

Urban cultural policy is increasingly focused on economic development and city reimaging rather than the priorities and experiences of local artists and cultural workers, while those approaches embedded in creative industries/creative cities frameworks, implicitly imagine creative workers to be young, ‘hip’, male, urban, and geographically mobile. Drawing on the findings of a major study of creative practice in Australia’s most culturally and demographically diverse urban area, Greater Western Sydney, this paper considers the creative, biographical and social profile of local cultural workers. Respondents were older, predominantly female, highly educated, and not particularly mobile. And although actively involved with local creative communities and networks, they do not fit established community arts and cultural development paradigms any more than those of the creative industries. These findings suggest that the typical cultural worker may not be the imagined artist of creative industries-informed cultural planning, nor those generally considered in accounts of creative work. The paper argues that in order to support the work of a diversity of local artists and cultural workers, including those who may be ‘unfashionable’, what is required are inclusive explanatory frameworks of cultural labour, and cultural planning and urban cultural policy approaches informed by community consultation and engagement.

The Profile of Creativity and Proposing Statistical Problem Quality Level Reviewed From Cognitive Style

This research aims to reveal the profile about the level of creativity and the ability to propose statistical problem of students at Mathematics Education 2014 Batch in the State University of Makassar in terms of their cognitive style. This research uses explorative qualitative method by giving meta-cognitive scaffolding at the time of research. The hypothesis of research is that students who have field independent (FI) cognitive style in statistics problem posing from the provided information already able to propose the statistical problem that can be solved and create new data and the problem is already been included as a high quality statistical problem, while students who have dependent cognitive field (FD) commonly are still limited in statistics problem posing that can be finished and do not load new data and the problem is included as medium quality statistical problem.

Location conditions for the clustering of creative activities in extra-metropolitan areas: Analysis and evidence from Spain

This article investigates the territorial conditions associated with the existence of creative activity clusters in extra-metropolitan areas. This issue is timely because the demographic, social and economic stagnation that continues to affect many of these areas requires recognition of the innovative dynamics that could alleviate it. We worked in a study zone composed of 2498 Spanish municipalities of between 1000 and 50,000 inhabitants distributed throughout the country. We began by identifying 514 municipalities with relative concentrations, or clusters, of creative activities. Next, we evaluated which factors explain the formation of the clusters identified: traditional factors related to markets and government policies—hard factors—or new factors related to, inter alia, amenities, tolerance, and the local climate—soft factors. To do this, we applied an econometric analysis that both manages employment and business data as exogenous variables and controls whether the demographic size and creative profile of the clusters influences the intensity of the clusterisation. The models obtained match the prediction only partially because they attribute the majority of the explanatory power to some hard-type factors but do not confirm the expectations raised by the soft factors. As a possible explanation we do not disregard the possibility that the literature has overvalued the benefit that extra-metropolitan or rural areas can extract from their specific advantages in the realm of “soft” factors. We believe that our study offers a valuable perspective on how creative activities are inserted into extra-metropolitan economies, and in this way, we contribute to a relevant social debate about rural development in both national and international spheres.

Between Individualism and Collectivism: Perception and Profiles of Creativity in Poland and Japan

AbstractThe aim of the study was to analyze creativity profiles and understanding of creativity in Poland and Japan. The study included 597 participants (233 Polish and 364 Japanese). Qualitative and quantitative analyses were carried out (mixed method). We identified the existence of five different creativity profiles and ten categories for defining creativity, with significant differences in frequency between the two countries. The obtained results are discussed from the perspective of intercultural differences and the individualism / collectivism theory (Hofstede, 1983).