Performing Artists and Anomalous Experiences

Objective: To evaluate the relations of anomalous experiences with five overexcitabilities, cumulative trauma exposure, and Beyond Personal creative process, samples performing artists, athletes, control participants. Method: This is a cross-sectional study (N = 454) in which participants were administered one session self-report instruments to assess overexcitability dimensions, past childhood adversity events, experiences, experiences. Analyses included inter-instrument intergroup analyses, regression analysis that focused only on artists (n 248), moderation determine moderating effect other variables. Results: Results showed that, compared athletes controls, had greater higher more but no differences trauma. Imaginational overexcitability, trauma, experience, emotional explained 32% variance group. The did not reach significance. Conclusion: findings this suggest desire create works expand Personal, coupled elevated factors, relate sensitivity awareness novel unusual including