Creativity among psychosis prone individuals: Hypomanic and Highly SchizotypalEvidence for confirmation the inverted-U relationship between creativity and psychopathology

Creativity is a multi-dimensional structure measured by a variety at methods.

This study has been done with the aim of comparing creativity among hypomanic and highly schizotypal with normal individuals.

The method of this research is comparative causative research and statistical community consisted of undergraduate of Tabriz University in the academic year of 2017-2018. The sample size was 1570 student were selected Using randomized cluster sampling and completed schizotypy personality questionnaire (Raine & et al 1994) and Hypomania Checklist (Forty & et al 2010) and were divided into 3 groups of normal, highly schizotypal and hypomanic, afterward they completed Abedi Creativity Test (Daemi and Moghimi 2004), Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Verbal Form B (Torrance, 1988) and drawing with Latin letters (made questionnaire). The obtained data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and ANOVA.

The results showed that hypomania and highly schizotypy groups (psychosis-prone individuals) obtained significantly higher scores than normal groups in creativity assessment tools. (P<0.05).

Schizotypy and Hypomania are related to creativity and the results of this study can be used as on evidence to confirm the relationship between inverted-U creativity and psychopathology.