Creativity and Personality Styles: An approach to creative profiles in university students.

The goal of this study is to analyse the presence of this divergent thinking in university students and its connection to personality styles. Sample is made up of 86 Speech Therapy and Psychology undergraduate students. The average age is 22, out of which 15.1% are male and 84.9% are female. Assessment of creativity has been achieved by using the CREA Test. (Corbalan, Martinez, Donolo, Alonso, Tejerina y Liminana, 2003). CREA test is intended at appreciating creative intelligence by means of an indicator of question-raising within a theoretical context of problem seeking and solving. Personality styles were evaluated by using MIPS (Millon, 2001), which offers a method to measure personality styles, organized into three main dimensions: motivational goals, cognitive modes and interpersonal behaviours. Results illustrate differential creative profiles according to their creative production, showing significant relations between some of the personality variables studied and creativity. These, in turn, could provide relevant information about creative behaviours in these university students.