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Ottemiller, Dylan D.; Elliott, Colette Seter; Giovannetti, Tania – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
This study examined relations between creative thinking and performance on routine, everyday tasks. Results were considered in light of past research on the putative relation between creativity and schizophrenia/psychotic thinking. Thirty healthy undergraduates completed the Alternative Uses Task, a measure of divergent thinking, and the 2 × 3…
Descriptors: Creativity, Daily Living Skills, Creative Thinking, Schizophrenia
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Knabb, Joshua J.; Vogt, Ronald G.; Newgren, Kevin P. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
In the current study, we investigated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) characteristics in an Old Order Amish nonclinical sample (N = 84), comparing these data with both the United States normative sample (N = 2,600) and a sample of Old Order Amish outpatients (N = 136). Consistent with our hypothesis, the Old Order Amish…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Patients, Personality Measures, Psychopathology
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Ellison, William D.; Levy, Kenneth N. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Using exploratory structural equation modeling and multiple regression, we examined the factor structure and criterion relations of the primary scales of the Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO; Kernberg & Clarkin, 1995) in a nonclinical sample. Participants (N = 1,260) completed the IPO and measures of self-concept clarity, defenses,…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Personality Measures, Test Validity, Structural Equation Models