General and Domain-Specific Contributions to Creative Ideation and Creative Performance

Abstract: The general objective of this study was to reexamine two views of creativity, one positing that there is a general creative capacity or talent and the other that creativity is domain-specific. These two views were compared by (a) testing correlations among measures of domain-general and domain-specific creativity and (b) examining how the general and the specific measures was each related to indices of knowledge, motivation, and personality. Participants were 147 college students enrolled in a foreign language course. Data were collected on participants’ domain knowledge, motivation, and creative personality, as well as four measures representing “General or Domain-Specific Creative Ideation” or “Creative Performance and Activity”. Results indicated that the four measures of creativity were correlated with one another, except for “General Performance and Activity” and “Domain-Specific Ideation.” A canonical correlation indicated that knowledge, motivation, and personality were sign.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1132

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: General and Domain-Specific Contributions to Creative Ideation and Creative Performance ; volume:12 ; number:4 ; day:18 ; month:11 ; year:2016 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 12, Heft 4 (18.11.2016)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Donggun An ; Mark A. Runco

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v12i4.1132
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417210731989376
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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