Why do youth generate negative or malevolent responses when prompted to come up with original or creative ideas? Is this tendency generalized across a range of situations and manifested in specific (negative or malevolent) themes that youth use consistently? Which aspects of creative potential are best associated with this “baseline” negative ideation? This study addresses these questions among an understudied sample of 114 males incarcerated in juvenile detention center settings, who completed three creative problem-solving tasks. Using a theme-specific scoring system for negative and malevolent ideation (e.g., inappropriate sexual content, harming, substance use), multivariate multiple regression in the path analytic framework showed an inconsistency of negative ideation across themes within each task, and within each theme across tasks. Further, accounting for response accuracy as a proxy for careless responding, creative potential indicators predicted moderately the occurrence of theme-specific (up to 26 % of the variance) and composite (up to 15 % of the variance) negative creativity according to the task considered. These results are discussed with regards to the apparent situation-specificity and theme-specificity of negative ideation as well as the role of careless responding in the occurrence of such ideation.

当提示他们提出原创或创意时，为什么青年会产生负面或恶意的反应？这种趋势是否在各种情况下普遍存在，并表现为青年人始终使用的特定（消极或恶意）主题？与“基准”否定构想最相关的是哪些创造潜能？这项研究针对114名被关押在少年拘留所中的男性进行了研究不足的样本，这些样本完成了三项创造性的解决问题的任务。使用负的，邪恶的意念（例如，一个主题，具体评分系统不适当的色情内容，贻害，物质使用），路径分析框架中的多元多元回归表明，每个任务中各个主题之间以及任务中每个主题内的否定性想法都是不一致的。此外，将响应准确度作为粗心响应的替代指标，创造性潜能指标根据任务适度预测了主题特定（高达变异的26％）和复合（高达变异的15％）负面创造力的发生考虑过的。讨论了关于否定构想的明显的情境特定性和主题特定性以及粗心的响应在这种构想的发生中的作用等方面的讨论。