1 / 17

Part Three Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity

SEERCP 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria. WS_N: Tolerance for ambiguity, creativity and personality. Katya Stoycheva. Part Three Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity. Saturday, October 31, 2009. European Year Creativity and Innovation 2009 http://create2009.europa.eu.

lynnea
Download Presentation

Part Three Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SEERCP 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria WS_N: Tolerance for ambiguity, creativity and personality Katya Stoycheva Part Three Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Saturday, October 31, 2009

  2. European Year Creativity and Innovation 2009 http://create2009.europa.eu Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  3. Topics • ambiguity tolerance and creative performance • the relation of ambiguity tolerance to creative motivation and need for achievement • ambiguity tolerance and creative personality Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  4. Ambiguity tolerance and creative performance Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  5. Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity High TFA adolescents :  generated more original ideas and solutions to the verbal tasks of the TTCT  generated less descriptive and more abstract titles to the figural tasks of the TTCT Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  6. Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity High TFA students:  provided more broad and generalised problem redefinitions  received higher mean creativity score on their solutions to redefined problems Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  7. Ambiguity tolerance and creativity motivation Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  8. Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity McDonald’s AT-20/BG 117 Students aged 17 - 43 r = 0.34 ** 279 Adults aged 17 - 69 r = 0.45 * ** Torrance’s creative motivation Norton’s MAT-50/BG-3 106 Adolescents aged 14 - 19 r = 0.32 * * 135 Students aged 19 - 34 r = 0.38 * ** Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  9. Creative motivation items that differentiate students with high and low tolerance of ambiguity don’t pay attention to the wild ideas dislike getting into things where I don’t know what’s going to happen enjoy work in which must keep trying new approaches fascinated by new ideas, whether or not they have practical value enjoy tackling a job that involves many as yet unknown difficulties get excited about trying out a new idea that may have no practical value Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  10. Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Creative motivation and need for achievement are positively related 106 Adolescents aged 14 - 19 r = 0.32 * * 135 Students aged 19 - 34 r = 0.38 * ** also 1286 Adolescents aged 14 - 19 r = 0.40* * * Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  11. Creative motivation items that differentiate students with high and low need for achievement put a lot of energy and hard work in what they do enjoy getting into things that involve unknowndifficulties get excited when an idea begins to work out Need for achievement items that differentiate students with high and low creative motivation take up several things to do at the same time give upsomething that can be achieved only with great efforts always interfere if a question is being incompetently discussed get enthusiastic when they talk about their work and plans Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  12. Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Creative motivation empowers the individual in his/her intrinsically motivated engagement with creative pursuits. Need for achievement empowers the individual in his/her expenditure of time, energy and efforts in the creative work. Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  13. Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Tolerance for ambiguity is related positively to creative motivation but is not related to need for achievement. Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  14. Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Tolerance of ambiguity may empower the intrinsically motivated exploration of novel, unusual or complex stimuli and situations. However, ambiguity tolerance is not related to the search for the best standards of achievement in the results of the creative work. Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  15. Topics • ambiguity tolerance and creative performance • the relation of ambiguity tolerance to creative motivation and need for achievement • ambiguity tolerance and creative personality Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)

  16. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Jacobs Foundation NATO Research Fellowship Laboratory of Cognition and Development University Rene Descartes, Paris, France Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences Sofia, Bulgaria The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009

  17. SEERCP 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria WS_N: Tolerance for ambiguity, creativity and personality THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity Katya Stoycheva

More Related