Creative Identity: Integrating Options for Cognitive, Personal, and Sociocultural Resources of Subjects

The challenges of subjects' creative development are consistent with the global values of self-expression in the profession and everyday life, occur in the conditions of innovative changes and imply selective formation of creative identity. It is relevant to study the Identity of subjects with different creative resources involved in modern technological and informational processes: technical (with the priority to automation), humanitarian (with the priority to personalized communications), social (with the focus on human social adaptation). The aim of the study: to reveal the creative identity types of subjects with specific innovational and adaptational resources of creative thinking and corresponding variants of integration of cognitive, personal, sociocultural resources of subjects representing different professional fields (humanitarian, social, technical). Sample: 397 university students; 255 females, 142 males (M = 20,5 years). Methods. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking-Figural (Form A) (TTCT) and the methodology Role Relations between Social Subjects and Creative Persona - lities, by V. G. Gryazeva-Dobshinskaya et al. based on the psychosemantic method. Results. The factor structure of subjects' creative thinking includes an innovational factor and adaptational factor. According to the ratio of innovational and adaptational factors of creative thinking subjects were differentiated into four types: exploratory, adaptive, high-creative, and low-creative. The specificity of socio-role and sociocultural identity factor structure in subjects representing three professional fields was revealed. Сonclusions. The types of creative thinking based on the structure of innovational and adaptational factors have been identified. Subjects of different professional fields show the specificity of creative identity types, including cognitive, personal, socio-cultural resources.