"Creativity and Tolerance of Ambiguity: An Empirical Study" by Franck Zenasni, Maud Besançon, and Todd Lubart

This research paper examines the relationship between creativity and tolerance of ambiguity, a personality trait that indicates one’s comfort with uncertain situations. The study involved 34 pairs of French adolescents and their parents, measuring creativity through tasks like divergent thinking, story-writing, and self-evaluation, as well as tolerance of ambiguity using established scales. The findings suggest a positive correlation between tolerance of ambiguity and various facets of creativity, particularly fluency and uniqueness of ideas. However, the study found no significant link between parents’ tolerance of ambiguity and their adolescents' tolerance of ambiguity or creativity, potentially due to the instability of personality during adolescence.