TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality Variables and Problem-Construction Activities
T2 - An Exploratory Investigation
AU - Mumford, Michael D.
AU - Costanza, David P.
AU - hrelfall, K. Victoria
AU - Baughman, Wayne A.
AU - Reiter-Palmon, Roni
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Edwin Fleishman, Wallace Sinaiko, Charles Davis, and Charles Uhlman for various comments that contributed to this effort. Parts of this research were supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (Contract No. N00014-91-J-1435, Michael D. Mumford and Edwin A. Fleishman, Principal Investigators). Descriptions of the items included in the personality scales, supporting hypotheses, and additional validation evidence pertaining to these scales may be obtained by contacting the first author.
PY - 1993/1/1
Y1 - 1993/1/1
N2 - Problem-construction and problem-finding activities have been shown to have a marked impact on creative achievement. Although cognitive operations play an important role in problem construction, there is reason to suspect that personality variables might influence effective process application. In the present study we constructed measures of personality characteristics that might influence adaption to novel, ill-defined tasks. These measures were administered to 250 undergraduates who were also asked to complete a problem-construction task. A series of discriminant analyses indicated that personality variables could be used to identify individuals who generated high-quality, original problems. The implications of our findings for understanding exactly how personality variables interact with cognitive operations in the problem-construction process are discussed.
AB - Problem-construction and problem-finding activities have been shown to have a marked impact on creative achievement. Although cognitive operations play an important role in problem construction, there is reason to suspect that personality variables might influence effective process application. In the present study we constructed measures of personality characteristics that might influence adaption to novel, ill-defined tasks. These measures were administered to 250 undergraduates who were also asked to complete a problem-construction task. A series of discriminant analyses indicated that personality variables could be used to identify individuals who generated high-quality, original problems. The implications of our findings for understanding exactly how personality variables interact with cognitive operations in the problem-construction process are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/10400419309534493
DO - 10.1080/10400419309534493
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040919793
SN - 1040-0419
VL - 6
SP - 365
EP - 389
JO - Creativity Research Journal
JF - Creativity Research Journal
IS - 4
ER -