http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19814 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:14:54 GMT 2026-06-01T19:14:54Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19854 Tytuł: Slumps and Jumps: Another Look at Developmental Changes in Creative Abilities Autorzy: Gralewski, Jacek; Lebuda, Izabela; Gajda, Aleksandra; Jankowska, Dorota M.; Wiśniewska, Ewa Abstrakt: The aim of this study is the analysis of creativity changes across life, particularly the widely discussed crisis periods in the development of creative abilities. A large and diversified sample of Poles (N = 4898 aged from 4 to 21 years), at each educational stage of the Polish education system, from pre-schoolers, through primary school students, middleschool students, secondary-school students and finally university students completed the Test for Creative Thinking – Drawing Production. The observed changes showed a nonlinear pattern in the development of creativity with diverse declines and increases in creative abilities. These trends are different for each of the assessment criteria of the TCT-DP and at least three different trajectories were identified. The adolescent slump was confirmed for three of the 14 assessment criteria as well as the total TCT-DP score. What was not noted however was: a slump caused by entry into formal schooling, (age 6 vs 7), 4th grade slump, (age 9 vs 10) and 6th grade slump (age 11 vs 12). We discuss possible reasons for and consequences of the findings. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19854 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19851 Tytuł: Creativity and Leadership in Organizations: A Literature Review Autorzy: Guo, Jiajun; Gonzales, Richard; Dilley, Anna E. Abstrakt: Despite the importance to researchers and organizations of how creativity contributes to effective leadership and how leadership contributes to group and organizational creativity, our knowledge regarding this interrelationship remains largely limited. A review of the literature based on both theoretical grounds and empirical evidence reveals that studies examining the intersection between creativity and leadership in organizations are divergent in terms of how they conceptualize this relationship. A multi-level framework is used to synthesize the knowledge in both creativity and leadership disciplines, with multiple themes having been found at each level of the framework. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19851 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19850 Tytuł: Popular Author of Popular Art Autorzy: Jaworski, Marcin Abstrakt: The article provides a report on research conducted on the creative activity of Jerzy Wróblewski, a Polish author of comics published in the book „Urodzony, żeby rysować”. Twórczość komiksowa Jerzego Wróblewskiego, “Born to Draw.” Jerzy Wróblewski’s Comic Art (Jaworski, 2015). It is the first study of this kind in Poland. From this point of view, it contains not only a body of knowledge in the form of a monograph of the comic writer’s artistic creativity, but it also includes a developed research model. The structure of this model, combining traditional monographic narrative with broad historical, political and social context, can be used in the analyses of artistic accomplishments of other authors of Polish comics. The presented study addresses the need for scientific explorations in this field, but also for raising the value of those parts of Polish modern culture which were marginalised as ‘worse’ for many years, first for political reasons, then for cultural ones. It appears that the time has come to examine critically the artistic creativity of important figures of Polish popular culture (in this case of comics) objectively and without ideological prejudice, and recognise them as full authors of Polish culture. Jerzy Wróblewski is among them and that is why the book is about him. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19850 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19848 Tytuł: Determinants of the Content and Creation of Modern Television Series. Selected Issues Autorzy: Arcimowicz, Krzysztof Abstrakt: The aim of this article is to present the most important factors affecting the creation and content of two different genres of television series– Polish television sagas and American post-soap operas. The analysis which I have carried out in the field allows the formulation of several conclusions. The creation of the two genres is similar. In both cases the most important people are the producers and scriptwriters and the most important criteria used for the assessment of a production are audience ratings and economic factors. Polish television sagas and American post-soaps are often very different with regard to their content and the ways they present social issues. The reasons for the differences include: genre convention, expectations of viewers, social and cultural context, and the emergence of commercial subscription television in the United States. At the turn of the 21st century HBO, an American pay television provider, followed by other stations began to produce shows which, even though they have originated from older television forms, break the ties with their antecedents. Makers of post-soaps address sensitive social issues and create their characters in an original and often controversial way. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19848 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z