ABSTRACT

The links between schizotypy and creativity remain ill-defined. This study assessed creative competencies and cognitive processes associated with creativity in groups of individuals with distinct levels of schizotypy dimensions. Groups were obtained through cluster analysis of a large student sample (N = 946). All dimensions of creative competencies (Capturing, Broadening, Surrounding, Challenging) were higher in a pure positive schizotypy cluster than in clusters characterized by negative schizotypy or low schizotypy. Regarding creative processes associated with creativity, two dimensions, namely Imagery and Incubation, were higher in the pure positive schizotypy cluster than in negative schizotypy or low schizotypy clusters, while other dimensions (Brainstorming, Idea manipulation, Imagery, Incubation) were higher in positive schizotypy cluster when compared with negative schizotypy groups. This supports the notion that creative cognitive processes are more developed in positive than in negative schizotypy. Most interestingly, it also suggests that positive schizotypy can be beneficial even when compared with non-schizotypal individuals, since all dimensions of creative competencies and two dimensions of creative cognitive processes were higher in individuals with high positive schizotypy than in those with low schizotypy. This could have implications to improve the difficult and stigmatizing personal experience of individuals with high positive schizotypy about their own symptoms.

摘要

精神分裂症与创造力之间的联系仍然不确定。这项研究评估了具有不同水平的精神分裂症个体的人群的创造力和与创造力相关的认知过程。通过对大学生样本（N= 946）。在纯正的精神分裂症患者群中，创新能力的所有维度（捕获，拓宽，环绕，挑战）都高于以负的精神分裂症患者或低精神分裂症患者为特征的集群。关于与创造力相关的创造过程，纯正的精神分裂症患者群的意象和孵化两个维度高于负的精神分裂症患者或低精神分裂症的簇，而其他维度（头脑风暴，想法操纵，意象，孵化）则高于正精神分裂症。与阴性精神分裂症组相比时呈簇状。这支持了这样的观念，即创造性的认知过程在积极的方面比消极的精神分裂症更容易发展。最有趣的是，这也表明，即使与非精神分裂症患者相比，积极的精神分裂症也可能是有益的，因为精神分裂症阳性的人的创造力的所有维度和创造性认知过程的两个维度都比精神分裂症的低者更高。这可能对改善对自己的症状具有高度阳性精神分裂症的个人的困难和污名化的个人经历产生影响。