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In Search of Temperament and Personality Predictors of Creativity: A Test of A Mediation Model
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Mammadov, Sakhavat; Cross, Tracy L.; Cross, Jennifer Riedl – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
Temperament and personality traits constitute inherent and learned personal characteristics that are crucial for creative behaviors among high ability students. This study investigated the relationships of temperament dimensions and the Big Five personality traits to creativity among 406 honors college students. First, the associations of…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Creativity
To Study the Relationship between Creativity & Personality among High School Students
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Perveen, Shaheen; Ramzan, Shaikh Imran – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2013
The central dimension of human personality is extroversion and introversion, the present study is therefore focussed on the relationship between creativity and extraversion and introversion personality traits. A teacher can identify extrovertism and introvertism among the students easily on the basis of their behaviour and habits. Teacher can also…
Descriptors: High School Students, Creativity, Personality Traits, Extraversion Introversion
Personality Characteristics and Choice of Academic Major: Are Traditional Stereotypes Obsolete?
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Pringle, Charles D.; DuBose, Philip B.; Yankey, Michael D. – College Student Journal, 2010
Among the many reasons for choosing an academic major are stereotypes that students hold of particular occupations and the degree to which they believe that their personalities match those stereotypes. We examined relevant personality characteristics (i.e., achievement motivation, conformity, conscientiousness, creativity and extroversion) of 899…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Personality Traits, Social Behavior, Business Administration
The Personality Composition of Teams and Creativity: The Moderating Role of Team Creative Confidence
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Baer, Markus; Oldham, Greg R.; Jacobsohn, Gwendolyn Costa; Hollingshead, Andrea B. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2008
We examined the possibility that teams composed primarily of individuals with personality characteristics conducive to team creativity (e.g., high extraversion, high openness to experience, low conscientiousness, high neuroticism, low agreeableness) would show synergistic increases in creativity when they experienced high levels of "team creative…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Creativity, Personality, Teamwork
Artistic and Everyday Creativity: An Act-Frequency Approach
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Ivcevic, Zorana – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2007
Scholars often distinguish everyday creativity and creativity in more formal domains, such as the arts. However, everyday creativity has been rather neglected in research. This paper compares artistic and everyday creativity. Three studies examine the content of behavior in artistic and everyday creativity, as well as similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Creativity, Psychopathology, Personality
The Five-Factor Model And Career Self-Efficacy: General and Domain-Specific Relationships
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Hartman, Robert O.; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2007
The present study investigates the hypothesis that the big five personality factors could exert two kinds of effects on career self-efficacy: (a) generalized or nonspecific effects and (b) domain-specific, content-correspondence effects. The hypothesis is examined using relationships of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory to 24 distinct domains of…
Descriptors: Personality, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis, Career Choice