Is creativity domain-specific? Latent class models of creative accomplishments and creative self-descriptions.

By Paul J Silvia, James C. Kaufman, Jean E. Pretz. 2009

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Is creativity domain-specific? We describe the value of latent class analysis for appraising domain generality, and we report two studies that explore the latent class structure of creative accomplishments (using Carson, Peterson, and Higgins’s Creative Achievement Questionnaire; n = 749) and creative self-descriptions (using Kaufman and Baer’s Creativity Domain Questionnaire; n = 3,534). For creative achievements, clear latent classes were found: the majority of people belonged to an ?uncreative? class, and smaller classes were found for visual arts and performing arts. For creative self-descriptions, however, latent classes were not found: people’s views of themselves as ?creative people? varied quantitatively but not qualitatively. Implications for the assessment and analysis of creativity are considered.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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The Dynamics of Creative Self-Concept: Changes and Reciprocal Relations Between Creative Self-Efficacy and Creative Personal Identity (2016, background): “Although Silvia, Kaufman, and Pretz (2009) claimed that people do not have much of a problem revealing that they are not creative, their selfdescriptions in this respect are generally very positive and result distributions are thus clearly skewed.”
Openness to experience, plasticity, and creativity: Exploring lower-order, high-order, and interactive effects ☆ (2009, methodology): “Finally, we examined latent interactions between plasticity and stability, an issue that has not been examined thus far in the Huge Two literature.”
Malevolent Creativity: Does Personality Influence Malicious Divergent Thinking? (2011, background): “Recently, we have witnessed the tide shift from viewing creativity as a single-domain phenomenon, similar to the g factor of intelligence, toward a multiple-domain view of creativity (Baer, 1993 ; Dow & Mayer, 2004 ; Plucker et al, 2004 ; Silvia, Kaufman, & Pretz, 2009 ; Sawyer, 2006 ; Weisbe”
Are openness and intellect distinct aspects of openness to experience? A test of the O/I model. (2011, methodology): “…with three self-report measures of creative achievement and activity that have performed well in our past work (Silvia and Kimbrel, 2010 and Silvia et al., 2009) and that have been recommended in a recent review of creativity assessment (Silvia, Wigert, ReiterPalmon, & Kaufman, in press).”
Cantankerous creativity: Honesty–Humility, Agreeableness, and the HEXACO structure of creative achievement (2011, background): “On the robust side, openness to experience consistently predicts creativity (e.g., King et al., 1996, McCrae, 1987, Nusbaum and Silvia, in press, Silvia et al., 2009 and Silvia et al., 2009).”
Creative potential in educational settings: its nature, measure, and nurture (2015, background): “…of ‘generic samples’, low- to medium-size correlations between measures of creative potential from different domains are usually reported (correlations in the .10–.30 range; Carson, Peterson, and Higgins 2005; Lubart and Guignard 2004; Plucker and Runco 1998; Silvia, Kaufman, and Pretz 2009).”
The relationship between trait emotional intelligence and creativity across subject domains (2011, methodology): “Recent research has proposed a domain-based classification of creativity along different lines than those used in the present study (Feist 2004; Silvia et al. 2009).”
The relative influences of domain knowledge and domain-general divergent thinking on scientific creativity and mathematical creativity (2017, background): “However, some scholars consider creativity a domain-specific ability (Baer, 1998, 2012; Gardner, 1983; Silvia et al., 2009; Weisberg, 2006).”
Evaluation of Self-Perceptions of Creativity: Is It a Useful Criterion? (2012, methodology): “This is a quasi-Guttman approach (Silvia et al., 2009), and has been used in creativity research to measure creative accomplishments successfully (Carson et al.”
Counting the Muses: Development of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) (2012, background): “The only domain that did not correlate with openness to experience was Mechanical/Scientific, consistent with the Silvia et al. (2009) findings.”
Assessing creativity with self-report scales: A review and empirical evaluation. (2012, methodology): “…of personality, such as openness to experience— r = .37 in a correlation analysis ( Dollinger, 2007) and β = .62 in a structural equation model ( Silvia et al., 2009)—political conservatism ( r = −.27; Dollinger, 2007), Gough's (1979) creative personality scale ( r = .43; Dollinger et al.,…”
The generality-specificity of creativity: Exploring the structure of creative potential with EPoC (2016, background): “…Kaufman, Cole, & Baer, 2009; Kaufman, 2012; Vispoel, 1993), and by studies exploring actual creative behaviors or achievements,also outliningthe domain-specificrather than domain-general nature of creativity (e.g., Carson, Peterson, & Higgins, 2005; Dollinger, 2006; Silvia, Kaufman, & Pretz, 2009).”