Some Psychological Factors of Creative Development in Family Constellation: Intelligence and Personality Traitsof Artistically – Technically Gifted Adolescents

• Authors: Eva Szobiová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Purpose of the articleThe presented study introduces the psychological factors which influence the creative development of young people in their families, especially from psychological position - acquired of birh of order - point of view. The study presents basic theoretical theses of birth orders´concept, as A. Adler and his followers introduced into psychological literature; it also brings information from empirical researches about the groups of five positions´ birth order: first-born, send-born, middle-born, youngest and parents´only children in relation to their psychological characteristics. The second part is dedicated to issue of birth order in relation to creativity, intelligence and personality traits of 153 adolescents - students of the last year of high school who passed the exams for the artistic - technical study at the Faculty of Architecture (61 men, 92 women) with the average age 18.32 years. Methodology/methods The creativity was identified by Urban’s Test of Creative Thinking (2002) and Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (Jurčová, 1984a). The intelligence was identified by the nonverbal Test of General Abilities (Smith, Whetton, 1993a). The Slovak version of NEO FFI Inventory (Ruisel, Halama, 2007a) was used for the measuring of five personality dimensions. The anamnestic data (the complete family, birth order, the number of siblings, the age differences between them, three typical characteristics of the adolescent and of his/her siblings, etc.) were obtained from our Questionnaire of the Family Constellation (Szobiová, 2007a). The results were statistically processed by means of ANOVA SPSS program. The inter-group differences based on the birth-order were tested by the one-way ANOVA method as well as two-way analysis by ANOVA method and by T-test (the Leven´s test of variance homogeneity). Scientific aim The aim of the study was to find out in what kind of families live the gifted students, what are intersexual differences in creativity, intelligence, personality traits and in what birth order live the gifted adolescents, what are their typical personality traits and also the specifics of their creativity and the level of intelligence. Findings The research results on the sample of 153 adolescents showed that higher performances in the fluency and flexibility of thinking in the Torrance Creativity Test showed the women in comparison to men. The results indicate that the birth order differentiates the groups of gifted adolescents in the personality dimension openness to experience and agreeableness. Highly creative adolescents have ascribed themselves more often characteristics connected with creativity (openness to experience, originality, desire for change, aesthetic experience and interests).The findings are comented as to the implications for the role of the creativity in both sexes and for the composition research sample and for research methods too. The other findings dealing with the specifics of creativity will be more broadly discussed in the study.

Keywords

EN

creativity; intelligence; family constellation; birth order; psychological position in family; personality traits

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Creative and Knowledge Society
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 70-89

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-04-17

Contributors

author

Eva Szobiová

• Associate professor, Faculty of Psychology, Pan–European University, Tematínska 10, 851 05 Bratislava, Slovakia, phone: [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10212-011-0026-0