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Insomnia and intellect mask the positive link between schizotypal traits and creativity.
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- A Systematic Review of Creativity-Related Studies Applying the Remote Associates Test From 2000 to 2019.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- A Structural Equation Modelling Exploration of the Role of Schizotypal Traits, Cognitive Schemas and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Social Isolation.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Positive schizotypy is associated with amplified mnemonic discrimination and attenuated generalization.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Loneliness, positive, negative and disorganised Schizotypy before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2022Article
- Ambiguous handedness and visuospatial pseudoneglect in schizotypy in physical and computer-generated virtual environments.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Adaptive and maladaptive features of schizotypy clusters in a community sample.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- How did Tunisian university students cope with fear of COVID-19? A comparison across schizotypy features.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- Cognitive Gain or Handicap: Magical Ideation and Self-Absorption in Clinical and Non-clinical Participants.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundSchizotypy is a set of personality traits that resemble the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia in the general population, and it is associated with various subclinical mental health problems, including sleep disturbances. Additionally, dimensions of schizotypy show specific but weak associations with creativity. Given that creativity demands cognitive control and mental health, and that sleep disturbances negatively impact cognitive control, we predicted that positive, impulsive and disorganised schizotypy will demonstrate stronger associations with indicators of creativity, if the effect of mental health, insomnia, and intellect are statistically controlled.
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resultsPositive schizotypy positively predicted real-life creative achievements, independently from the positive effect of intellect. Follow-up analyses revealed that positive schizotypy predicted creative achievements in art, while higher disorganised schizotypy was associated with creative achievements in science (when intellect was controlled for). Furthermore, disorganised schizotypy positively predicted remote association problem solving performance, if insomnia and verbal short term memory were statistically controlled. No dimension of schizotypy was significantly associated with divergent thinking. DISCUSSION: In line with previous findings, positive schizotypy predicted real-life creative achievements. The positive effects of disorganised schizotypy might be explained in terms of the simultaneous involvement of enhanced semantic priming and cognitive control in problem solving. We speculate that the lack of associations between divergent thinking and schizotypy might be related to instruction effects. Our study underscores the relevance of sleep impairment to the psychosis-spectrum, and refines our knowledge about the adaptive aspects of schizotypy in the general population.
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