Environmental frustration and creative problem solving.

Report of an empirical study of the effect of environmental frustration on creative-problem-solving performance. The research design is based upon a linear model of creative problem solving Alternate forms of analysis are applied, testing the relationship between environmental frustration and creativity under various sets of assumptions about the experimental conditions It is concluded that environmental frustration does significantly reduce creative-problem-solving performance. This is supported under a number of alternative assumptions about the "rest of the world" variables of personality and ability factors.