A new perspective on the link between multiculturalism and creativity: The relationship between core value diversity and divergent thinking

Recent theorizing suggested that the experience of cultural accountability might be an important mechanism explaining the often found heightened creativity among individuals with a multicultural background. In the present paper, participants completed a survey including two new scales - the value diversity scale and the value conflict scale - and took additional measurements of multicultural experiences, and personality. Results revealed an interaction effect between perceived value diversity and cultural conflict, such that value diversity predicted higher divergent thinking scores, only among participants who reported higher value conflict.