The present study aimed to investigate the relationship among self-construal, achievement goals, and creativity. A total of 464 junior high school students (mean age = 12.81 years; 44.2% male; 51.8% in seventh grade; and 48.2% in eighth grade) completed the Self-Construal Scale, Goal Orientation Scales, Divergent Feeling Scale, and Kirton's…

Cognitive reserve relies on the ability to effectively cope with aging and brain damage by using alternate processes to approach tasks when standard approaches are no longer available. In this study, the issue if creativity can predict cognitive reserve has been explored. Forty participants (mean age: 61 years) filled out: the Cognitive Reserve…

This study used the recently revised Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and a variety of validated creativity measures to replicate a classic finding--that sensing-intuition predicts creativity--and to evaluate whether the other MBTI scales add to the prediction of creativity. 94 undergraduates completed the MBTI (form M self-scorable) and…

Torrance's longitudinal study predicting adult creative achievement was reexamined employing a multiple regression analysis. Application to 211 cases found that 4 predictors explained 49% of the total variance in adult creative achievement. They were creativity test score, childhood future career image, intelligence test score, and the existence…