title: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire scales and paper-and-pencil tests related to creativity.
abstract: Pearson correlations for scores on scales of the 1975 version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire with measures of schizotypy, hypomania, and creative traits are reported for 625 undergraduates. The Psychoticism scores are correlated .30 with Hypomanic traits, .25 with Perceptual Aberration, and .20 with the How Do You Think, a test of attitudes and activities related to creativity. Extraversion is also related to creativity-relevant scores. Results support a broad and nonspecific role for the Psychoticism scale in relation to both creativity and subclinical symptomatology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812-1584, USA. david.schuldberg@umontana.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schuldberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires