THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND PSYCHOSIS-PRONENESS

Authors
ZANES J ROSS S HATFIELD R HOUTLER B WHITMAN D
Citation
J. Zanes et al., THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND PSYCHOSIS-PRONENESS, Personality and individual differences, 24(6), 1998, pp. 879-881
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Social
Journal title
Personality and individual differences → ACNP
ISSN journal
01918869
Volume
24
Issue
6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
879 - 881
Database
ISI
SICI code
0191-8869(1998)24:6<879:TRBCAP>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
One-hundred and fifteen undergraduates were repeatedly administered a battery measuring schizotypal personality type and creativity (remote associations). Principal Components Analysis found a two-factor model to be most parsimonious. The pattern of results suggests that magical ideation and perceptual aberration items are represented by one factor and suspiciousness by the second. Analysis of consistent versus incon sistent high scorers on the schizoptypia measure indicated that incons istent high scorers on the suspiciousness factor scored significantly higher than consistent high scorers on the creativity measure. (C) 199 8 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.