SOCIAL BENEFITS OF BEING CREATIVE: CREATIVITY AS A POSITIVE DEVIANCE

• Authors: Kusa D.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper is focused on the social facets of the creativity that were investigated in CEVIT studies. The term positive deviance is applied in considerations of a) creativity in the interpersonal contents and processes, b) dilemmas of creator's otherness and motivation, and c) creativity little and creativity big. The analysis of the benefits and costs of creativity is related to the contents that were either designed by researcher or inferred from the participants' reports. The concept of little and big creativity which is introduced within the frame of dynamic model of creativity and its implications for value-led research of creativity is considered.

Keywords

EN

CREATIVITY; INTERPERSONAL CONFLICTS; MOTIVATIONAL DILEMMA; OTHERNESS; POSITIVE DEVIANCE

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 229-240
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kusa D.

• D. Kusa, Ustav experimentalnej psychologie SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA01683644