Life Style and Creativity: An Empirical Investigation

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Abstract
Five groups of 12 undergraduate college females each (art majors, visually disabled, dance majors, physically but not visually disabled, and a control group) were repeatedly administered a battery of tests of creativity under systematically varied conditions of visual and kinesthetic stimulation. In addition, an unselected group of 40 Ss were repeatedly administered the same tests under neutral conditions. The first four groups were selected to represent extremes of a visual creativity and a kinesthetic creativity dimension, and it was predicted that score increases would be a function of the intensity of experimental manipulation, its sensory congruence with S's creative style, and Ss' initial levels of creativity. All forms and levels of stimulation were found to increase creativity significantly. Initially most creative Ss remained most creative under all conditions. The physically disabled group was consistently least creative. Creativity appears to be an individually stable characteristic that is systematically sensitive to environmental circumstances.

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