Personality and ability predictors of the "Consequences" Test of divergent thinking in a large non-student sample

Adrian Furnham; John Crump; Mark Batey; Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.007

Personality and ability predictors of the "Consequences" Test of divergent thinking in a large non-student sample

Adrian Furnham, John Crump, Mark Batey, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

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Abstract

Over 3000 adult managers attending an assessment centre completed a battery of tests including three personality trait inventories (NEO-PIR; MBTI; and HDS), two ability tests (GMA, WG) and a well established measure of divergent thinking (the Consequences Test) used as the criterion variable for creativity. Regressions showed the NEO-PIR Big Five at facet and domain level accounted for around ten percent of the variance in divergent thinking. The MBTI, Big Four, accounted for only five percent of the total variance. Both intelligence tests were modestly correlated with creativity. Together sex, intelligence and personality accounted for 12% of the variance. Bright, stable, open, extraverted males scored most highly on the measure of creative thinking. Implications of these findings are discussed. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	536-540
Number of pages	4
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	46
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.12.007
Publication status	Published - Mar 2009

Keywords

Big Five
Consequences
Creativity
Divergent thinking
Intelligence
Personality

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Personality and ability predictors of the "Consequences" Test of divergent thinking in a large non-student sample

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