The overarching aim of the assignment is to examine the associations between personality and creativity. The two are closely linked, with certain personality traits more likely to be associated with both a person’s creative self-concept and their creative behaviour (Batey & Hughes, 2017; Silvia, Nusbaum, Berg, Martin, & O’Connor, 2009).
For the purposes of the assignment, personality is defined in terms of the five-factor trait model of personality, and specifically, the Huge Two meta-traits (Karwowski & Lebuda, 2016). Creativity is defined in terms of both how creative an individual thinks they are, i.e. their creative self-concept (Karwowski, 2016), as well as the creativity of their behaviour in tasks requiring convergent and divergent cognitive abilities (Cropley, 2006).

For your assignment, you will write a full research report that addresses the following research question:
How do the Huge Two meta-traits of personality relate to creative self-concept and performance on creativity tasks requiring (a) convergent cognitive abilities and (b) divergent cognitive abilities?
Before you start working on your research report, please visit Assignment 2: Methodology to familiarise yourself with the study.
Structure
The assignment will be presented in the form of a lab report containing the following sections:
• Title page
o Come up with a title for your study.
o Important: The Title page is not included in your final word count.
• Abstract (120–150 words, 5% of your overall mark)
o The Abstract should summarise your Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion clearly and succinctly.
• Introduction (approximately 1000 words, 30% of your overall mark)
o You must include at least two hypotheses:
 At least one hypothesis must address relationships between the Huge Two meta-traits of personality and creative self-concept.
 At least one hypothesis must address relationships between the Huge Two meta-traits and performance on creativity tasks requiring (a) convergent cognitive abilities and (b) divergent cognitive abilities.
• Method (approximately 400 words, 5% of your overall mark)
o You can base this section on the Method information described in Assignment 2: Methodology. Important: Do not just copy and paste the ‘Method’ information provided on the page.
• Results (approximately 400 words, 20% of your overall mark)
o Include descriptive statistics (M, SD) for the variables used in your analyses and the results of hypothesis testing.
o Present results according to APA 7th standards.
• Discussion (approximately 1000 words, 30% of your overall mark)
o Were the hypotheses supported? Why/why not?
o How do the results of this study compare with previous studies?
o What are the implications of the findings for theory and practice in personality psychology?
o What are the methodological limitations of the study, and how could they have affected the findings or future directions?
o Present a coherent conclusion.