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Reanalyses of Student Responses to Creativity Checklists: Evidence of Content Generality
Author(s) -
PLUCKER JONATHAN A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1999.tb01042.x
Subject(s) - generality , creativity , content (measure theory) , checklist , variance (accounting) , psychology , content analysis , social psychology , cognitive psychology , mathematics , social science , sociology , mathematical analysis , accounting , business , psychotherapist
The question of whether creativity is content general (i.e., applied similarly across content areas) or content specific (i.e., applied differently across content areas) is one of the most controversial issues in contemporary creativity research, with recent studies providing support for both positions. Reanalyses of data from three previously published studies suggest that, contrary to the results of recent research, a content general factor may explain 40 — 50% of the variance in creativity checklist scores. The results are analyzed in light of other studies, and a hypothesis regarding the content generality‐specificity of creativity is provided to guide future research efforts.