CREATIVE PERSONALITY VERSUS CHINESE PERSONALITY - HOW DISTINCTIVE ARETHESE 2 PERSONALITY-FACTORS

The purposes of the study were to investigate the distinctiveness of t he creative personality and the Chinese personality and to examine wha t values Hong Kong Chinese people attached to traits of both personali ties. A checklist of 60 adjectives, which consisted of traits of the c reative personality, the Chinese personality and the western personali ty, was administered to 278 Hong Kong Chinese participants. The partic ipants were asked to rate the importance they attached to each adjecti ve. Results of factor analyses indicated that characteristics of the c reative and Chinese personalities were perceived as distinctive by the participants. Among the top ten factors which the participants attach ed high values, four of them belonged to the creative personality, thr ee of them to the Chinese personality and three of them to the Western personality. A dynamic interaction between traditional Chinese and We stern values, including the creative personality, can be observed.