Exploring links between creative abilities, creative personality and subclinical autistic traits. (1st May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jankowska, Dorota M.; Omelańczuk, Iwona; Czerwonka, Marta; Karwowski, Maciej
• Is Part Of: Personality and individual differences. Volume 142(2019)
• Page Start: 226
• Page End: 231
• Publication Date: 2019-05-01
• Subjects: Subclinical autistic traits -- Broader autism phenotype -- Cognitive and personality-related creativity -- Latent variable approach -- Propensity score matching; Personality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Personality Development -- Periodicals; Personnalité -- Périodiques; Individualité -- Périodiques; 155.205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.05.008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-8869

Abstract

Abstract: This study examined relationships between creativity and subclinical autistic traits in a sample of students. The links between autistic traits and cognitive (performance-based) and personality-related (self-reported) creativity were assessed by means of structural equation modeling. It was demonstrated that while the latent factor of creativity composed of self-report scales was negatively linked to autistic traits, the latent factor of cognitive creativity was positively related to them. A follow-up analysis with the focus on people whose scores classified them as having broad autism phenotype (BAP) and matched controls selected on a basis of propensity score matching demonstrated that while personality-related factor of creativity was negatively linked to the likelihood of being classified as BAP, cognitively-related creativity was not related to BAP. We discuss the reasons for unsystematic links between creativity and autism, focusing on potential sources of variability that stem from self-reported versus performance-based measures of creativity and from the possibility of non-linear links between these characteristics.