3,070
Views
45
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ARTICLES

The Early Lives of Highly Creative Persons: The Influence of the Complex Family

, , &
Pages 343-357 | Published online: 04 Nov 2008

REFERENCES

  • Albert , R. S. ( 1971 ). Cognitive development and parental loss among the gifted, the exceptionally gifted and the creative . Psychological Reports , 29 , 19 – 26 .
  • Albert , R. S. ( 1980 ). Family position and the attainment of eminence: A study of special family positions and special family experience . In R. S. Runco (Ed.), Genius and eminence (pp. 141 – 154 ). New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Albert , R. S. (Ed.). ( 1992 ). Genius and eminence () , 2nd ed. . New York : Pergamon .
  • Albert , R. S. ( 1994 ). The contribution of early family history to the achievement of eminence . In N. Colangelo & S. Assouline (Eds.), Talent development (pp. 311 – 360 ). Dayton : Ohio Psychology Press .
  • Albert , R. S. ( 1996 ). Presidential address to division 10 of the American Psychological Association: What the study of creativity can teach us . Creativity Research Journal , 9 , 307 – 315 .
  • Albert , R. S. , & Runco , M. A. ( 1986 ). The achievement of eminence: A model based on a longitudinal study of exceptionally gifted boys and their families . In R. J. Sternberg & J. E. Davidson (Eds.), Conceptions of giftedness (pp. 332 – 360 ). Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press .
  • Amabile , T. M. ( 1989 ). Growing up creative: Nurturing a lifetime of creativity . New York : Crown .
  • Amabile , T. M. ( 1996 ). Creativity in context . Boulder , CO : Westview Press .
  • Bakan , D. ( 1966 ). The duality of human existence . Chicago : Rand McNally .
  • Baldwin , J. M. ( 1911 ). Thought and things: A study of the development and meaning of thought (Vols. 3 – 4 ). New York : Macmillan .
  • Baltes , P. , Lindenberger , U. , & Staudinger , U. M. ( 1998 ). Life-span theory in developmental psychology . In R. M. Lerner (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 1. Theoretical models of human development ( , 5th ed. , pp. 1029 – 1143 ). New York : Wiley .
  • Barron , F. ( 1963 ). Creativity and psychological health: Origins of personal vitality and creative freedom . Princeton , NJ : Van Nostrand .
  • Baumrind , D. ( 1977, March ). Socialization determinants of personal agency. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans .
  • Baumrind , D. ( 1989 ). Rearing competent children : In W. Damon (Ed.), Child development today and tomorrow (pp. 349 – 378 ). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass .
  • Block , J. H. , & Block , J. ( 1980 ). The role of ego-control and ego-resiliency in the organization of behavior . In W. A. Collins (Ed.), Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology: Vol. 13. Development of cognition, affect, and social relations (pp. 39 – 101 ). Hillsdale , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates .
  • Bloom , B. S. (Ed). ( 1985 ). Developing talent in young people . New York : Ballantine Books .
  • Bradley , R. H. , Corwyn , R. F. , McAdoo , H. P. , & Garcia-Coll , C. ( 2001 ). The home environments of children in the United States. Part I: Variations by age, ethnicity, and poverty status . Child Development , 72 , 1844 – 1867 .
  • Brooks , J. B. ( 1973 ). Familial antecedents and adult correlates of artistic interests in childhood . Journal of Personality , 41 , 110 – 120 .
  • Colangelo , N. ( 1988 ). Families of gifted children: The next ten years . Roeper Review , 11 , 16 – 18 .
  • Cooper , C. R. , Grotevant , H. D. , & Condon , S. M. ( 1983 ). Individuality and connectedness in the family as a context for adolescent identity formation and role-taking skill . In H. D. Grotevant & C. R. Cooper (Eds.), Adolescent development in the family (pp. 43 – 59 ). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. ( 1996 ). Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention . New York : HarperCollins .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. ( 1999 ). Implications of a systems perspective for the study of creativity . In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 313 – 335 ). Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. , & Csikszentmihalyi , I. S. ( 1993 ). Family influences on the development of giftedness . In G. R. Block & K. Ackrill (Eds.), Ciba Foundation Symposium. The origins and development of high ability (Vol. 178, pp. 187 – 206 ). Chichester , England : John Wiley & Sons .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. , & Larson , R. ( 1984 ). Being adolescent: Conflict and growth in the teenage years . New York : Basic Books .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. , & Larson , R. ( 1987 ). Validity and reliability of the experience sampling method . Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases , 175 , 526 – 536 .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. , & Rathunde , K. ( 1998 ). The development of the person: An experiential perspective on the ontogenesis of psychological complexity . In W. Damon (Series Ed.) & R. M. Lerner (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Theoretical models of human development ( , 5th ed. , Vol. 1, pp. 635 – 684 ). New York : Wiley .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. , Rathunde , K. , & Whalen , S. ( 1993 ). Talented teenagers: The roots of success and failure . Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press .
  • Csikszentmihalyi , M. , & Rochberg-Halton , E. ( 1981 ). The meaning of things: Domestic symbols and the self . New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Damon , W. ( 1983 ). Social and personality development . New York : W. W. Norton .
  • Dewing , K. , & Taft , R. ( 1973 ). Some characteristics of the parents of creative twelve-year-olds . Journal of Personality , 41 , 71 – 85 .
  • Fredrickson , B. L. ( 1998 ). What good are positive emotions? Review of General Psychology , 2 , 300 – 319 .
  • Furstenberg , F. F. , Jr. , Morgan , S. P. , & Allison , P. D. ( 1987 ). Parental participation and children's well-being after marital dissolution . American Sociological Review , 52 , 695 – 701 .
  • Getzels , J. W. , & Csikszentmihalyi , M. ( 1976 ). The creative vision: A longitudinal study of problem-finding in art . New York : Wiley .
  • Getzels . J. W. , & Jackson , P. ( 1962 ). Creativity and intelligence: Explorations with gifted students . New York : Wiley .
  • Goertzel , M. G. , Goertzel , V. , & Goertzel , T. G. ( 1978 ). 300 eminent personalities . San Francisco : Jossey-Bass .
  • Grotevant , H. D. , & Cooper , C. R. (Eds.). (1983). Adolescent development in the family . San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.
  • Harrington , D. M. , Block , J. H. , & Block , J. ( 1987 ). Testing aspects of Carl Rogers's theory of creative environments: Child-rearing antecedents of creative potential in young adolescents . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 52 , 851 – 856 .
  • Hauser , S. T. ( 1991 ). Adolescents and their families: Paths of ego development . New York : Free Press .
  • Helson , R. ( 1965 ). Childhood interest clusters related to creativity in women . Journal of Consulting Psychology , 29 , 352 – 361 .
  • Helson , R. ( 1966 ). Personality of women with imaginative and artistic interests: The role of masculinity, originality, and other characteristics in their creativity . Journal of Personality , 34 , 1 – 25 .
  • Helson , R. ( 1968 ). Effects of sibling characteristics and parental values on creative interest and achievement . Journal of Personality , 36 , 589 – 607 .
  • Hertwig , R. , Davis , J. N. , & Sulloway , F. J. ( 2002 ). Parental investment: How an equity motive can produce inequity . Psychological Bulletin , 128 , 728 – 745 .
  • Howe , M. J. A. ( 1999 ). Prodigies and creativity . In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 431 – 446 ). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
  • Irwin , C. E. (Ed.). ( 1987 ). Adolescent social behavior and health . San Francisco : Jossey-Bass .
  • Maccoby , E. E. , & Martin , J. A. ( 1983 ). Socialization in the context of the family: Parent–child interaction . In E. M. Heatherington (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Socialization, personality, and social development (Vol. 4, pp. 1 – 101 ). New York : Wiley .
  • MacKinnon , D. W. ( 1962 ). The nature and nurture of creative talent . American Psychologist , 17 , 484 – 495 .
  • MacKinnon , D. W. ( 1964 ). Creativity and images of the self . In R. W. White (Ed.), The study of lives (pp. 250 – 278 ). New York : Atherton .
  • MacKinnon , D. W. ( 1967 ). Assessing creative persons . Journal of Creative Behavior , 1 , 291 – 304 .
  • McCurdy , H. G. ( 1960 ). The childhood pattern of genius . Horizon , 2 , 33 – 38 .
  • Milgram , R. M. , & Hong , E. ( 1999 ). Creative out-of-school activities in intellectually gifted adolescents as predictors of their life accomplishment in young adults: A longitudinal study . Creativity Research Journal , 12 , 77 – 87 .
  • Nakamura , J. E. ( 2001 ). The nature of vital engagement in adulthood . In M. Michaelson & J. Nakamaura (Eds.), Supportive frameworks for youth engagement (pp. 5 – 18 ). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass .
  • Nakamura , J. E. ( 2002 ). Sustaining engagement: Continuity and change into later life ( unpublished doctoral dissertation ). Chicago : University of Chicago .
  • Rathunde , K. ( 1988 ). Optimal experience and the family context . In M. Csikszentmihalyi & I. S. Csikszentmihalyi (Eds.), Optimal experience: Psychological studies of flow in consciousness (pp. 342 – 363 ). New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Rathunde , K. ( 1989 ). The context of optimal experience: An exploratory model of the family . New Ideas in Psychology , 7 , 91 – 99 .
  • Rathunde , K. ( 1996 ). Family context and talented adolescents' optimal experience in school-related activities . Journal of Research on Adolescence , 6 , 605 – 628 .
  • Rathunde , K. , & Csikszentmihalyi , M. ( 1991 ). Adolescent happiness and family interaction . In K. Pillemer & K. McCartney (Eds.), Parent—child relations throughout life (pp. 143 – 162 ). Hillsdale , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates .
  • Rathunde , K. , & Csikszentmihalyi , M. ( 2008 ). The developing person: An experiential perspective . In W. Damon & R. M. Lerner (Series Eds.) & R. M. Lerner (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology: Theoretical models of human development ( , 6th ed. , Vol. 1, pp. 465 – 515 ). New York : Wiley .
  • Roe , A. ( 1952 ). The making of a scientist . New York : Dodd Mead .
  • Rogers , C. R. ( 1954 ). Towards a theory of creativity . ETC: A Review of General Semantics , 11 , 249 – 260 .
  • Rogoff , B. ( 1990 ). Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context . New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Runco , M. A. , & Albert , R. S. ( 2005 ). Parents' personality and the creative potential of exceptionally gifted boys . Creativity Research Journal , 17 , 355 – 367 .
  • Sawyer , R. K. , John-Steiner , V. , Moran , S. , Sternberg , R. J. , Feldman , D. H. , Nakamura , J. , & Csikszentmihalyi , M. ( 2003 ). Creativity and development . Oxford , UK : Oxford University Press .
  • Simonton , D. K. ( 1984 ). Genius, creativity, and leadership . Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Simonton , D. K. ( 1988 ). Developmental antecedents of achieved eminence . Annals of Child Development , 5 , 131 – 169 .
  • Skinner , M. L. , Elder , G. H. Jr. , & Conger , R. D. ( 1992 ). Linking economic hardship to adolescent aggression . Journal of Youth and Adolescence , 21 , 259 – 276 .
  • Sulloway , F. J. ( 1996 ). Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives . New York : Pantheon .
  • Terman , L. M. ( 1954 ). The discovery and encouragement of exceptional talent . American Psychologist , 9 , 221 – 30 .
  • Uhlenberg , P. , & Mueller , M. ( 2003 ). Family context and individual well-being: Patterns and mechanisms in life course perspective . In J. T. Mortimer & M. J. Shanahan (Eds.), Handbook of the life course (pp. 123 – 148 ). New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum .
  • Urban , K. K. ( 1995 ). Different models in describing, exploring, explaining and nurturing creativity in society . European Journal of High Ability , 6 , 143 – 159 .
  • Vygotsky , L. ( 1978 ). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes . Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Walberg , H. J. ( 1981 ). Childhood traits and environments of highly eminent adults . Gifted Child Quarterly , 25 , 103 – 107 .
  • Walberg , H. J. , Zhang , G. , Cummings , C. , Fillipelli , L. A. , Freeman , K. A. , et al. ( 1996 ). Childhood traits and experiences of eminent women . Creativity Research Journal , 9 , 97 – 102 .
  • Wenk , D. , Hardesty , C. L. , Morgan , C. S. , & Blair , S. L. ( 1994 ). The influence of parental involvement on the well-being of sons and daughters . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 56 , 229 – 234 .
  • Whitbeck , L. B. , Simons , R. L. , Conger , R. D. , Lorenz , F. O. , Huck , S. , & Elder , G. H. , Jr. ( 1991 ). Family economic hardship, parental support, and adolescent self-esteem . Social Psychology Quarterly , 54 , 353 – 363 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.