A Dimensional Analysis of Creativity and Mental Illness: Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Creative Cognition, Creative Accomplishments, and Creative Self-Concepts?
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Silvia, PJ; Kimbrel, NA
Published in: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
February 1, 2010
The link, if any, between creativity and mental illness is one of the most controversial topics in modern creativity research. The present research assessed the relationships between anxiety and depression symptom dimensions and several facets of creativity: divergent thinking, creative self-concepts, everyday creative behaviors, and creative accomplishments. Latent variable models estimated effect sizes and their confidence intervals. Overall, measures of anxiety, depression, and social anxiety predicted little variance in creativity. Few models explained more than 3% of the variance, and the effect sizes were small and inconsistent in direction. © 2010 American Psychological Association.
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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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1931-390X
ISSN
1931-3896
Publication Date
February 1, 2010
Volume
4
Issue
1
Start / End Page
2 / 10
Related Subject Headings
- 5205 Social and personality psychology
- 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
- 1901 Art Theory and Criticism
- 1702 Cognitive Sciences
- 1701 Psychology
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Silvia, P. J., & Kimbrel, N. A. (2010). A Dimensional Analysis of Creativity and Mental Illness: Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Creative Cognition, Creative Accomplishments, and Creative Self-Concepts? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 4(1), 2–10. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016494
Silvia, P. J., and N. A. Kimbrel. “A Dimensional Analysis of Creativity and Mental Illness: Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Creative Cognition, Creative Accomplishments, and Creative Self-Concepts?” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 4, no. 1 (February 1, 2010): 2–10. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016494.
Silvia PJ, Kimbrel NA. A Dimensional Analysis of Creativity and Mental Illness: Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Creative Cognition, Creative Accomplishments, and Creative Self-Concepts? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 2010 Feb 1;4(1):2–10.
Silvia, P. J., and N. A. Kimbrel. “A Dimensional Analysis of Creativity and Mental Illness: Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Creative Cognition, Creative Accomplishments, and Creative Self-Concepts?” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, vol. 4, no. 1, Feb. 2010, pp. 2–10. Scopus, doi:10.1037/a0016494.
Silvia PJ, Kimbrel NA. A Dimensional Analysis of Creativity and Mental Illness: Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Creative Cognition, Creative Accomplishments, and Creative Self-Concepts? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 2010 Feb 1;4(1):2–10.
Published In
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
DOI
EISSN
1931-390X
ISSN
1931-3896
Publication Date
February 1, 2010
Volume
4
Issue
1
Start / End Page
2 / 10
Related Subject Headings
- 5205 Social and personality psychology
- 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
- 1901 Art Theory and Criticism
- 1702 Cognitive Sciences
- 1701 Psychology