Journal article

Publication year: 2005

Pages: 83-95

Journal: European Journal of Personality

Volume number: 19

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 0890-2070

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/per.534

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Abstract: 

The aim of the present study was to test (i) Eysenck's theory that psychoticism (P) should be related to creativity, (ii) whether testosterone (T), due to its association with P claimed in the literature, can be identified as a biological marker of creativity, and (iii) whether the SEEK dimension of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) was also related to creativity and to testosterone due to its relationship to Sensation Seeking. In a sample of N = 48 male and female subjects, test scores on figural, verbal, and numeric creativity were compared between high and low P-scorers as well as between high and low SEEK-scorers. Effects were controlled for fluid intelligence as measured by Cattell's CFT-3 and crystallized intelligence as assessed by the Structure-of-Intelligence-Test (Intelligenz-Struktur-Test, I-S-T 2000 R).

Neither a main effect of P or T nor an interaction effect P x T on creativity could be obtained. Instead, SEEK was related to all components of creativity and explained more than 15% of the variance of total creativity. Moreover, significant differences in SEEK could be explained by differences in T independently of gender. Furthermore, 39% of the variance of SEEK could be explained by the two uncorrelated indicators testosterone and creativity. Copyright (c) 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Harvard Citation style: Reuter, M., Panksepp, J., Schnabel, N., Kellerhoff, N., Kempel, P. and Hennig, J. (2005) Personality and biological markers of creativity, European Journal of Personality, 19(2), pp. 83-95. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.534

APA Citation style: Reuter, M., Panksepp, J., Schnabel, N., Kellerhoff, N., Kempel, P., & Hennig, J. (2005). Personality and biological markers of creativity. European Journal of Personality. 19(2), 83-95. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.534