Innovation and the ‘Dark Side’ of Personality: Dysfunctional Traits and their Relation to Self-Reported Innovative Characteristics
✍ Scribed by LARA D. ZIBARRAS; REBECCA L. PORT; STEPHEN A. WOODS
- Publisher
- Creative Education Foundation
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 101 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-0175
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between self‐reported innovative characteristics and dysfunctional personality traits. Participants (N = 207) from a range of occupations completed the Innovation Potential Indicator (IPI) and the Hogan Development Survey (HDS). Those who reported innovative characteristics also reported the following dysfunctional traits: Arrogant, Manipulative, Dramatic, Eccentric; and lower levels of Cautious, Perfectionist and Dependent. A representative approximation of the higher order factor “moving against people” (Hogan & Hogan, 1997) was positively associated with innovative characteristics. It is concluded that innovation potential may be viewed as a positive effect of some otherwise dysfunctional traits, most notably those encompassed under the second‐order HDS factor ‘moving against people’.