THE DARK TRIAD AND NEGATIVE CREATIVITY (original) (raw)
Negative creativity is shaping into a legitimate sub-construct of creativity. To meet the goal of studying it in conjunction with the Dark Triad, participants (N = 129, 88 Indians, 88 women, Mage = 25.09 years, SD = 10.03) completed two creativity measures and three personality scales. The Alternate Uses Test (AUT) and a self-report Creativity measure were used to assess the two valences of creativity—positive and negative. The relationship between negative creativity and negative personality traits, namely, the Dark Triad, was investigated to study the criterion validity of the creativity measures. While the Dark Triad predicted endorsement of negative creativity on the Creativity measure, there was no discernable relationship with the generation of negative- creative responses on the AUT. Further, the AUT led to the generation of less than two percent of negative-creative responses. Suggestions for improving the AUT as a tool to measure negative creativity are discussed. Keywords: negative creativity; Dark Triad; malevolent creativity; Alternate Uses Test
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