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Part Three
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
SEERCP 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
WS_N: Tolerance for ambiguity, creativity and personality
Katya Stoycheva
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
European Year
Creativity and Innovation
2009
http://create2009.europa.eu
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
©ambiguity tolerance and creative performance
©the relation of ambiguity tolerance to creative motivation and need for achievement
©ambiguity tolerance and creative personality
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Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Ambiguity tolerance
and
creative performance
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
High TFA adolescents :
generated more original ideas and solutions to the verbal tasks of the TTCT
generated less descriptive and more abstract titles to the figural tasks of the TTCT
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
High TFA students:
provided more broad and generalised problem redefinitions
received higher mean creativity score on their solutions to redefined problems
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Ambiguity tolerance
and
creativity motivation
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
McDonald’s AT-20/BG 117 Students aged 17 - 43
r = 0.34 * * 279 Adults aged 17 - 69
r = 0.45 * * * Torrance’s creative motivation
Norton’s MAT-50/BG-3 106 Adolescents aged 14 - 19
r = 0.32 * * 135 Students aged 19 - 34
r = 0.38 * * *
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Creative motivation items that differentiate students with high and low tolerance of ambiguity
don’t pay attention to the wild ideas
dislike getting into things where I don’t know what’s going to happen
enjoy work in which must keep trying new approaches
fascinated by new ideas, whether or not they have practical value
enjoy tackling a job that involves many as yet unknown difficulties
get excited about trying out a new idea that may have no practical value
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Creative motivation and need for achievement are positively related
106 Adolescents aged 14 - 19 r = 0.32 * *
135 Students aged 19 - 34 r = 0.38 * * *also
1286 Adolescents aged 14 - 19 r = 0.40* * *
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Creative motivation items that differentiate students with high and low need for achievementput a lot of energy and hard work in what they do
enjoy getting into things that involve unknown difficulties
get excited when an idea begins to work out
Need for achievement items that differentiate students with high and low creative motivationtake up several things to do at the same time
give up something that can be achieved only with great efforts
always interfere if a question is being incompetently discussed
get enthusiastic when they talk about their work and plans
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Creative motivation empowers the individual in his/her intrinsically motivated engagement with creative pursuits.
Need for achievement empowers the individual in his/her expenditure of time, energy and efforts in the creative work.
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Tolerance for ambiguity is related positively to creative motivation but is not related
to need for achievement.
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
Tolerance of ambiguity may empower the intrinsically motivated exploration of novel, unusual or complex stimuli and situations.
However, ambiguity tolerance is not related to the search for the best standards of achievement in the results of the creative work.
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009)
©ambiguity tolerance and creative performance
©the relation of ambiguity tolerance to creative motivation and need for achievement
©ambiguity tolerance and creative personality
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Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
Katya Stoycheva (SEERCP 2009
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Jacobs Foundation
NATO Research Fellowship
Laboratory of Cognition and Development University Rene Descartes, Paris, France
Institute of Psychology, Academy of SciencesSofia, Bulgaria
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Ambiguity Tolerance and Creativity
SEERCP 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria WS_N: Tolerance for ambiguity, creativity and personality
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Katya Stoycheva