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Peer reviewedMcClelland, David C. – American Psychologist, 1989
Study of the role of personality factors in health and disease suggests that motivational variables are related to and influence physiological systems. Affiliative trust and a greater sense of agency are associated with better health, while affiliative cynicism and a sense of helplessness are associated with more illness. (AF)
Descriptors: Diseases, Health, Helplessness, Interpersonal Relationship
Download full textWakefield, John F. – 1987
The history of divergent-thinking tests suggests that new approaches to creativity testing are needed. Research has focused on the relation of creativity to insight, divergent problem solving, problem finding, and intelligence. A proposed situational model of creativity defines creativity as a meaningful response to open-problem, open-solution…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Creativity Tests
