Schizophrenia and creativity: A meta-analytic review

The present study investigated the relationship between creativity and schizophrenia with a 3-level multilevel meta-analytic approach. Analyses with 200 effect sizes obtained from 42 studies found a mean effect size of r= −0.324, 95%CI [−0.42, −0.23]. Further analyses focused on moderators and indicated that the relationship between schizophrenia and creativity is moderated by type of creativity measure, the content of creativity measure, the severity of schizophrenia, and patient status. The negative mean effe ct size was stronger with semantic-category or verbal-letter fluency tasks than the divergent thinking or associational measures.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Selcuk Acar, Xiao Chen, Nur Cayirdag Source Type: research