A Dimensional Analysis of Creativity and Mental Illness: Do Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Creative Cognition, Creative Accomplishments, and Creative Self-Concepts?

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-10

  Silvia, Paul J ^a   Kimbrel, Nathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; creativity; depression; latent variable models; mood disorders; social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649215043     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016494     Document Type: Article

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