Differential influence of asynchrony in early and late chronotypes on convergent thinking
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Cím:
Differential influence of asynchrony in early and late chronotypes on convergent thinking
Létrehozó:
Simor, PĂ©ter
Polner, Bertalan
Kiadó:
Taylor and Francis
Dátum:
2017-01-01
Téma:
BF07 Individual psychology / individuálpszichológia
BF18 Sleep and dreams / alvás, álom
Tartalmi leírás:
Eveningness preference (late chronotype) was previously associated with different personality
dimensions and thinking styles that were linked to creativity, suggesting that evening-type individuals
tend to be more creative than the morning-types. Nevertheless, empirical data on the
association between chronotype and creative performance is scarce and inconclusive. Moreover,
cognitive processes related to creative thinking are influenced by other factors such as sleep and
the time of testing. Therefore, our aim was to examine convergent and divergent thinking abilities
in late and early chronotypes, taking into consideration the influence of asynchrony (optimal versus
nonoptimal testing times) and sleep quality. We analyzed the data of 36 evening-type and 36
morning-type young, healthy adults who completed the Compound Remote Associates (CRAs) as a
convergent and the Just suppose subtest of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as a divergent
thinking task within a time interval that did (n = 32) or did not (n = 40) overlap with their
individually defined peak times. Chronotype was not directly associated with creative performance,
but in case of the convergent thinking task an interaction between chronotype and asynchrony
emerged. Late chronotypes who completed the test at subjectively nonoptimal times showed
better performance than late chronotypes tested during their “peak” and early chronotypes tested
at their peak or off-peak times. Although insomniac symptoms predicted lower scores in the
convergent thinking task, the interaction between chronotype and asynchrony was independent
of the effects of sleep quality or the general testing time. Divergent thinking was not predicted by
chronotype, asynchrony or their interaction. Our findings indicate that asynchrony might have a
beneficial influence on convergent thinking, especially in late chronotypes.
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magyar
Típus:
Article
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Formátum:
text
Azonosító:
Simor, PĂ©ter and Polner, Bertalan (2017) Differential influence of asynchrony in early and late chronotypes on convergent thinking. Chronobiology International, 34 (1). pp. 118-128. ISSN 0742-0528
Kapcsolat:
https://doi.org/10.1080/07420528.2016.1246454