ERIC Number: EJ1257072
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0175
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The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Domain-Specific and Domain-General Creativity
Tu, Cuiping; Guo, Jiajun; Hatcher, Ryan C.; Kaufman, James C.
Journal of Creative Behavior, v54 n2 p337-349 Jun 2020
The Amusement Park Theory of Creativity, which represents both domain-specific and domain-general perspectives of creativity, calls for more research on how individual difference constructs are related to creativity at all ends of the domain-specificity and general spectrum. Toward this goal, this study examined emotional intelligence (using the Emotional Intelligence Scale) in relationship with both a domain-general measure (the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults) and a domain-specific measure (Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale) in a sample of 281 Chinese undergraduates. Although emotional intelligence demonstrated no relationship with divergent thinking, it did positively predict all five domains of creativity on the self-report measure (ranging from 0.52 to 0.77). These findings add to the nuanced relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity and serve as a call for more work of this nature.
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, Individual Differences, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
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