Creativity among psychosis prone individuals: Hypomanic and Highly Schizotypal Evidence for confirmation the inverted-U relationship between creativity and psychopathology
Introduction: Creativity is a multi-dimensional structure measured by a variety at methods. Aim: This study has been done with the aim of comparing creativity among hypomanic and highly schizotypal with normal individuals. Method: The method of this research is comparative causative research and s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Kurdistan University of Medical Scienses
2020-03-01
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| Series: | روانشناسی و روانپزشکی شناخت |
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| Online Access: | http://shenakht.muk.ac.ir/article-1-534-en.pdf |
| Summary: | Introduction: Creativity is a multi-dimensional structure measured by a variety at methods.
Aim: This study has been done with the aim of comparing creativity among hypomanic and highly schizotypal with normal individuals.
Method: The method of this research is comparative causative research and statistical community consisted of undergraduate of Tabriz University in the academic year of 2017-2018. The sample size was 1570 student were selected Using randomized cluster sampling and completed schizotypy personality questionnaire (Raine & et al 1994) and Hypomania Checklist (Forty & et al 2010) and were divided into 3 groups of normal, highly schizotypal and hypomanic, afterward they completed Abedi Creativity Test (Daemi and Moghimi 2004), Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Verbal Form B (Torrance, 1988) and drawing with Latin letters (made questionnaire). The obtained data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and ANOVA.
Results: The results showed that hypomania and highly schizotypy groups (psychosis-prone individuals) obtained significantly higher scores than normal groups in creativity assessment tools. (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Schizotypy and Hypomania are related to creativity and the results of this study can be used as on evidence to confirm the relationship between inverted-U creativity and psychopathology. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-6657 2476-2962 |