No sólo la apertura define a los estudiantes con mayor potencial creativo

  1. María José Ruíz Melero 1
  2. María Rosario Bermejo García 1
  3. Mercedes Ferrando Prieto 1
  4. Marta Sainz Gómez 1
  1. 1 Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia
Journal:
Electronic journal of research in educational psychology

ISSN: 1696-2095

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 18

Issue: 50

Pages: 55-76

Type: Article

DOI: 10.25115/EJREP.V18I50.2645 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Introduction: The relevance to study personality traits in creative students within the educa- tional field implies their identification and then select the right educational response to the dif- ferent creative profiles of the students. The aim was to analyze the relationship between per- sonality and creativity, and to deepen into which personality traits defines the students with the greatest creative potential in a sample of adolescents, based on the model of the Five Factors Model of personality (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Method: Participants were 178 students of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) from the Region of Murcia (Spain), aged between 12 and 17 years old (M = 14.59, SD = 1.40). Of which 49.3% were boys. The instruments used in our study have been: to value creativity, the TTCT (Torrance, 1974); and to evaluate personality traits, the BFQ-NA (Big Five Personality Ques- tionnaire for children and teenagers, Barbaranelli, Caprara & Rabasca, 1998), specifically, the adaptation to Spanish (Del Barrio, Carrasco & Holgado, 2006) or the NEO-FFI (Revised NEO Personality Inventory, reduced version, Costa & McCrae, 2008), according to the age of the participants. Results: To assess the differences in personality, we made three groups based on their level of creativity (high, medium and low). The results showed that there were three personality traits were related to creative dimensions: Extraversion, Consciousness and Openness. While, the most creative people present significantly higher scores on the following personality traits: Ex- traversion, Consciousness and Agreeableness. Discussion or Conclusion: In general, there was a moderate relationship between creative skills and personality traits. Extraversion, Consciousness and Openness were the personality traits the most related to creativity. Of which, Extraversion and Consciousness were the most define a creative profile. Similar results were those obtained by Chamorro-Premuzic & Reichenbacher (2008), Furnham (2015), and Szobiová (2006).

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This study was carried out with support from the General Subdirectorate for Research Projects R&D&I. Ministry of Science and Technology (Spain). (Ref: EDU2014-53646-R).

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