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openness to experience in students who align their studies with work is a natural tendency,
since working experience fosters them to develop communication skills and the ability to
solve complex and unconventional situations, which influence their personality changes.
When comparing the creativity expression of students who do not work while studying with
those who align their studies with work, statistically significant changes were not identified.
Considering the fact that differences of personality traits and creativity of students who do
not work while studying and those who align their studies with work have been scarcely
investigated, this sphere should be the object of future researches.
There is no unambiguous opinion about distinctive personality traits of a creative
personality or the interface between personality traits and creativity components, besides,
different data contradicts each other. Analysis of the interface between personality traits
and creativity carried out in our research has supplemented the results of other researchers
on the interface between personality traits and creativity components. The research results
have demonstrated that students who are open to experience have a higher level of
intuition, fantasy, originality and flexibility, criticism in performing tasks and the need to
seek innovation. This coincides with findings of most researchers regarding the interface
between the person's creativity and openness to experience, beginning with the authors of
humanistic psychology (Maslow, Rogers) and continuing until the present day (McCrae,
Costa, 1997; Петрулис, 1988, 1991; Petrulytė, 2001 and others). According to some authors,
openness to experience is to a great extent interfaced with creativity and is one of key
features of a creative personality (Wolfradt, Pretz, 2001; Leung, Chiu, 2008; Garkauskaitė-
Karkockienė, 2013; Pociūtė, Isiūnaitė, 2011).
The results of our research have revealed positive interfaces between the students'
extraversion and intuition, fantasy, seeking innovation and childishness. It is asserted that
activeness in communication, maintaining contact, energy and optimism are more
characteristic to a creative personality. However, when investigating the interface between
extraversion and creativity, the results of different authors are controversial. For example,
MacKinnon admits (quoted by Wolfradt, Pretz, 2001) that creative personalities have a
higher level of intraversion. The research of D. Grakauskaitės-Karkockienės (2013) did not
identify statistically significant interfaces between extraversion and creativity.
Our research has identified significant correlations: a particularly strong negative interface
between the total creativity and agreeableness, as well as a negative agreeableness
interfaces with flexibility, originality, criticism, inversiveness and childishness. These results
do not coincide with the results obtained by Sung, Choi (2009), which show strong
interfaces between creativity and agreeableness (in the group of individuals with a lower
motivation); however, they are in line with the conclusions of D. Grakauskaitė-Karkockienė
(2013) and U. Wolfrad, J. E. Pretz (2001), who admit that agreeableness does not interface
with creativity. The latter interfaces could be investigated in future researches.
Our research has identified negative interfaces between conscientiousness / integrity and
flexibility, originality, criticism, inversiveness and childishness. The aforementioned data not
always coincides with other researches of a similar type, for example, showing that
conscientiousness/integrity and creativity are not interfaced with each other (Grakauskaitė-
Karkockienė, 2013). R. R. McCrae (1987) (quoted by Wolfradt, Pretz, 2001) also refuted the
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