@article {RN3065,
	title = {Generators and Interpretors in a Performing Arts Population: Dissociation, Trauma, Fantasy Proneness, and Affective States},
	journal = {Creativity Research Journal},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2009},
	note = {403NJ Times Cited:0 Cited References Count:194},
	pages = {72-91},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {An international sample of 130 working artists was divided into two domains: generators (writers, designers, choreographers, one composer) and interpreters (directors, actors, opera singers, dancers). The correlations between dissociation, trauma experiences, fantasy proneness, and affective states were examined, followed by a regression analysis to predict elevated levels of dissociation. Artists, regardless of creative domain, scored in the moderate range for dissociation and fantasy proneness. Both groups endorsed lower levels of affective variability than a normed group. Interpreters scored significantly higher than generators on total dissociation, absorption/imagination, absorption/changeability, and depersonalization/derealization. Additive factors of younger age, affective states of anger, sadness and spirituality, and higher scores on fantasy proneness and traumatic experiences predicted elevated levels of dissociation, with only sadness predicting pathological dissociative levels on the taxometric Dissociative Experiences Scale-II (DES-II) subscale. Given these findings, greater awareness about dissociation and the need for an elaborated model of affect regulation is recommended.},
	keywords = {posttraumatic-stress-disorder childhood sexual-abuse individual-differences positive affect mental-illness pathological dissociation undergraduate students experiences scale adult attachment creative writers},
	issn = {1040-0419},
	doi = {Doi 10.1080/10400410802633533 Pii 908465062},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000263089000009},
	author = {Thomson, P. and Keehn, E. B. and Gumpel, Thomas P.}
}
