Harmful creativity and Its Relationship with the big five personality traits among a sample of Khartoum University students
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Harmful Creativity, Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Openness, Conscientiousness, PersonalityAbstract
This study aims to explore harmful creativity in relation to the Big Five personality traits (extraversion, emotional stability, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness). The correlational descriptive approach was adopted. Habbab Measure of Harmful Creativity and the Big Five Personality Traits scale (adapted by Abdelkhaleq) were adopted and administered to a sample of 579 participants (274 males, 47.3%, and 305 females, 52.7%), from scientific and literary disciplines, as well as high, medium, and low academic levels in Khartoum University. The results revealed no significant relationship between harmful creativity overall scores those of extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, and openness. However, there was a correlation between harmful creativity overall score and conscientiousness. Concerning harmful creativity dimension, no significant relationship was found between the harm dimension and the Big Five personality traits, except for a negative relationship with emotional stability. Similarly, there was no significant relationship between deceit dimension and the Big Five traits, except for openness. Recommendations included application of situational tests for harmful creativity and the Big Five personality traits measurement, use of Dark Triad to assess personality, and implementation of future programs to mitigate harmful creativity based on the Big Five personality traits.
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