Beatrice Adriana Balgiu
University Politehnica of Bucharest, România
Title: Creative self concept and personality from adolescents to emerging adults
Biography
Biography: Beatrice Adriana Balgiu
Abstract
Objectives: The main objective of this study is to identify the creative self concept evolution from the early adolescence to the emerging adulthood and to analyze a pattern of relationship between creative self-concept and big five personality traits in comparison between adolescents and emerging adults.
Method: The participants were two groups of subjects, adolescents (N = 100; Mage = 15.97) and emerging adults (N = 390; Mage = 19.07) who completed measures for assessing big five personality traits (big five inventory-10) and creative self-concept and its dimensions in creative self-efficacy, the confidence in creative capacity and creative personal identity. The importance of creativity for self-description (Short Scale for Creative Self).
Results: The results show that the group of adolescents get higher scores than the emerging adults group at the creative self-concept, and its dimensions, suggesting that creative identity and belief over their own creative abilities are important to adolescents after which this importance begins to decline. The structural equation model shows that for creative self-efficacy, important predictors are Openness and Extraversion both for adolescents and for emerging adults, and for creative personal identity, predictor is Openness for adolescents and Openness and Agreeableness in emerging adults. The conscientiousness, neuroticism and gender do not constitute significant predictors of the creative self-concept and its parameters for either of the two age groups.
Conclusions: We consider the relationship between creative self-concept and personality develops and becomes more complex as the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood and adult age later.