The Road to Creative Achievement: A Latent Variable Model of Ability and Personality Predictors

Overview

Journal Eur J Pers

Publisher Sage Publications

Date 2014 Feb 18

PMID 24532953

Citations 55

Authors

Emanuel Jauk

Mathias Benedek

Aljoscha C Neubauer

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

This study investigated the significance of different well-established psychometric indicators of creativity for real-life creative outcomes. Specifically, we tested the effects of creative potential, intelligence, and openness to experiences on everyday creative activities and actual creative achievement. Using a heterogeneous sample of 297 adults, we performed latent multiple regression analyses by means of structural equation modelling. We found openness to experiences and two independent indicators of creative potential, ideational originality and ideational fluency, to predict everyday creative activities. Creative activities, in turn, predicted actual creative achievement. Intelligence was found to predict creative achievement, but not creative activities. Moreover, intelligence moderated the effect of creative activities on creative achievement, suggesting that intelligence may play an important role in transforming creative activities into publically acknowledged creative achievements. This study supports the view of creativity as a multifaceted construct and provides an integrative model illustrating the potential interplay between its different facets.

Citing Articles

Does Students' Level of Intelligence Moderate the Relationship Between Socio-Economic Status and Academic Achievement?.

Steinmayr R, Kessels U J Intell. 2024; 12(12.

PMID: 39728091 PMC: 11727768. DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence12120123.

Individual differences in music-induced interpersonal synchronization and self-other integration: the role of creativity and empathy.

Kempf A, Maes P, Gener C, Schiavio A R Soc Open Sci. 2024; 11(11):240654.

PMID: 39555390 PMC: 11569829. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.240654.

Predicting creative behavior using resting-state electroencephalography.

Chhade F, Tabbal J, Paban V, Auffret M, Hassan M, Verin M Commun Biol. 2024; 7(1):790.

PMID: 38951602 PMC: 11217288. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06461-6.

Semantic associative abilities and executive control functions predict novelty and appropriateness of idea generation.

Wang X, Chen Q, Zhuang K, Zhang J, Cortes R, Holzman D Commun Biol. 2024; 7(1):703.

PMID: 38849461 PMC: 11161622. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06405-0.

Experiencing more meaningful coincidences is associated with more real-life creativity? Insights from three empirical studies.

Rominger C, Fink A, Perchtold-Stefan C PLoS One. 2024; 19(5):e0300121.

PMID: 38787888 PMC: 11125470. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300121.

References

Wilson R, Guilford J, Christensen P . The measurement of individual differences in originality. Psychol Bull. 1953; 50(5):362-70. DOI: 10.1037/h0060857. View

Carson S, Peterson J, Higgins D . Decreased latent inhibition is associated with increased creative achievement in high-functioning individuals. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2003; 85(3):499-506. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.3.499. View

Vellante M, Zucca G, Preti A, Sisti D, Rocchi M, Akiskal K . Creativity and affective temperaments in non-clinical professional artists: an empirical psychometric investigation. J Affect Disord. 2011; 135(1-3):28-36. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.06.062. View

Baron R, Kenny D . The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1986; 51(6):1173-82. DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.51.6.1173. View

Gilhooly K, Fioratou E, Anthony S, WYNN V . Divergent thinking: strategies and executive involvement in generating novel uses for familiar objects. Br J Psychol. 2007; 98(Pt 4):611-25. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2007.tb00467.x. View

Feist G . A meta-analysis of personality in scientific and artistic creativity. Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2005; 2(4):290-309. DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0204_5. View

Benedek M, Franz F, Heene M, Neubauer A . Differential effects of cognitive inhibition and intelligence on creativity. Pers Individ Dif. 2012; 53-334(4):480-485. PMC: 3387381. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.014. View

Jauk E, Benedek M, Dunst B, Neubauer A . The relationship between intelligence and creativity: New support for the threshold hypothesis by means of empirical breakpoint detection. Intelligence. 2013; 41(4):212-221. PMC: 3682183. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.03.003. View

WALLACH M, Kogan N . A new look at the creativity-intelligence distinction. J Pers. 1965; 33(3):348-69. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1965.tb01391.x. View

10.

Barron F . The disposition toward originality. J Abnorm Psychol. 1955; 51(3):478-85. DOI: 10.1037/h0048073. View

11.

Guilford J . Creativity. Am Psychol. 1950; 5(9):444-54. DOI: 10.1037/h0063487. View

12.

Schmidt F, Hunter J . General mental ability in the world of work: occupational attainment and job performance. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2004; 86(1):162-73. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.1.162. View

13.

Batey M, Furnham A . Creativity, intelligence, and personality: a critical review of the scattered literature. Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr. 2008; 132(4):355-429. DOI: 10.3200/mono.132.4.355-430. View

14.

Benedek M, Muhlmann C, Jauk E, Neubauer A . Assessment of Divergent Thinking by means of the Subjective Top-Scoring Method: Effects of the Number of Top-Ideas and Time-on-Task on Reliability and Validity. Psychol Aesthet Creat Arts. 2014; 7(4):341-349. PMC: 4001084. DOI: 10.1037/a0033644. View

15.

Marsh H, Ludtke O, Muthen B, Asparouhov T, Morin A, Trautwein U . A new look at the big five factor structure through exploratory structural equation modeling. Psychol Assess. 2010; 22(3):471-91. DOI: 10.1037/a0019227. View