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PUSHMI-PULLYU AND LITTLE C: A SEARCH FOR THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONAL
CREATIVITY IN A GENERAL POPULATION
by
William M. Breland III
______________________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PSYCHOLOGY)
May 2009
Copyright 2009
William M. Breland III
Object Description
| Title | Pushmi-pullyu and little c: a search for the structure of personal creativity in a general population |
| Author | Breland, William M., III |
| Author email | wbreland@usc.edu; dr.billi@creativepsych.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-01-19 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-03-14 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Horn, John Walsh, David |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McArdle, John Trickett, Penelope Farver, JoAnn |
| Abstract | In reviewing the elusive nature of creativity and the evidence and theories that comprise our understanding of how creativity operates in a system of internal and external influences, the author remarks that there are life-enhancing and life-challenging (a.k.a. pushmi-pullyu) facets to creativity that warrant a closer examination. A bi-path theory of creativity is introduced that synthesizes psychodynamic and humanist perspectives on creativity to formulate a general rubric for describing and examining a pushmi-pullyu dynamic in creativity.; The research examines a general population via a questionnaire constructed for the investigation, the Bi-path Creativity System Inventory -- version 2 (BCSI-2). Data was collected in two distinct BCSI-2 modalities: hard copy surveys and Internet surveys. The difference between the modalities produced a difference in the distributions of the modality-grouped data that was equilibrated to establish equivalence.; Multiple-group structure equation model methods were used to analyze the data. One of the principal objectives was to identify a factorial invariant structure for explicitly recognizable processes that individuals use in pursuing their personal creative interests and the relationships among those processes and life satisfaction. Another of the principal objectives was to confirm the measurability of bi-path theory’s hypothesized dimension of personality and its curvilinear relationship to creative activity -- this is presented in bi-path theory as the reparative-nurtural hypothesis. Finding support for these two objectives confirms fundamental predictions of bi-path theory.; The results suggest that individuals explicitly recognize using several distinct processes: knowledge acquisition, skill acquisition, inquisitiveness about knowledge and skill, convergent ideation processes, divergent ideation processes, sensitivity to anomaly, expectation of need for change, abductive reasoning, pre-inventive immersions (dream-like cognitive drifts), spontaneous emergences (a ha! events), top-down and bottom-up concept formations, internal and external loci of assessment standards, and productivity resolve and satisfaction. Furthermore, these processes were found to be complexly related to life satisfaction. Additionally, the reparative-nurtural hypothesis was supported to a large degree. The expected curvilinear relationship was identified but the reparative-nurtural dimension of personality was not found to include all of its predicted characteristics. |
| Keyword | creativity; life-satisfaction; creative processes; structure equation model; invariance analysis; personality; humanist theory; psychodynamic theory; internet data collection |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2030 |
| Rights | Breland, William M., III |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Breland-2645 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Breland-2645.pdf |
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| Full text | i PUSHMI-PULLYU AND LITTLE C: A SEARCH FOR THE STRUCTURE OF PERSONAL CREATIVITY IN A GENERAL POPULATION by William M. Breland III ______________________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PSYCHOLOGY) May 2009 Copyright 2009 William M. Breland III |
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