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Assessing Creative Persons *
Author(s) -
MACKIN DONALD W.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1967.tb00030.x
Subject(s) - adjective check list , personality , psychology , trait , adjective , personality assessment inventory , big five personality traits , contrast (vision) , social psychology , clinical psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , noun , programming language
Personality assessment, in contrast to psychodiagnosis, psychological testing, and the measurement of individual differences, attempts to delineate the person as a whole through the use of a multiplicity of procedures and emphasizes the more favorable and positive aspects of personality and its potentialities for effective functioning. Developed during World War II, the method has been most extensively used by the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, University of California. Berkeley, in its studies of highly creative persons. In these researches the characteristics of such persons have been effectively revealed, e.g. , through the use of life history interviews, personality trait ratings, an adjective check list, and the Q‐sort method, and their level of creativeness predicted by multiple regression analyses.