Merckelbach, H., Horselenberg, R., & Muris, P. (2001). The Creative Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ): a brief self-report measure of fantasy proneness. Personality and Individual Differences, 31(6), 987-995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00201-4. Abstract: The current article describes the psychometric qualities of the Creative Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ), a brief 25-item self-report measure of fantasy proneness. Findings indicate that the CEQ demonstrates […]
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Zampetakis, L. A. (2010). Unfolding the measurement of the creative personality. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 44(2), 105–123. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2162-6057.2010.tb01328.x Abstract: Gough’s Creative Personality Scale (CPS) is a self-report personality inventory for creativity assessment. We investigated the undimensionality and the response process on the CPS from an ideal point (unfolding) perspective. The Graded Unfolding Model (GUM) was used […]
Nelson, B. & Rawlings, D. (2009) How Does It Feel? The Development of the Experience of Creativity Questionnaire. Creativity Research Journal, 21(1), 43-53. DOI: 10.1080/10400410802633442. Abstract: Creativity research has tended to neglect the phenomenology of the creative process. This article addresses this by describing the development of the Experience of Creativity Questionnaire (ECQ), designed to […]
Mayfield, M. & Mayfield, J. (2010). Developing a Scale to Measure the Creative Environment Perceptions: A Questionnaire for Investigating Garden Variety Creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 22(2), 162-169. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2010.481511 Abstract: A scale is presented to measure worker creative environment perceptions. The scale has good measurement properties, is brief enough for easy administration, and can be […]
Cropley, D., & Kaufman, J. (2012). Measuring Functional Creativity: Non‐Expert Raters and the Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale. Journal of Creative Behavior, 46, 119-137. The Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale (CSDS) is a 30-item scale based on a core of four criteria: Relevance & Effectiveness, Novelty, Elegance, and Genesis. The CSDS offers potential for the consensual assessment of […]
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Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production (TCT-DP) can be seen as an endeavor to apply a more holistic and gestalt-oriented approach to creativity analysis (Urban, 2004). The test designers are concerned not only with divergent and quantitative aspects of creativity but also with its qualitative dimensions (e.g. content, gestalt, composition, elaboration) and other components […]
Problem solving is often conceptualized as being made up of logical stages. Different models may identify different logical stages, but generally, problem solving involves problem finding, problem construction, solution generation and solution evaluation. Not only divergent thinking but also other cognitive aspects such as knowledge representation and insight are necessary in the problem solving process. […]
Interested in the symbolic scope of creativity, Barron (1988) constructed an instrument to measure the ability to make original and apt transformation of a given image, the Symbolic Equivalence Test (SET). Metaphor has long been considered an important element of thought, but the test does not specify any creativity theory except for Barron’s assumption that […]
While divergent thinking tests are criticized for ignoring the role of convergent thinking in creative thought, other instruments are criticized for depending too much on convergent thinking. Mednick’s 1962 Remote Associates Test (RAT) theorized that creative ideas results from the bringing together of remote, unrelated ideas. Thus, individuals who frequently bring remote ideas together should […]
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