Dimensions of Creativity and Temperament in Officer Evaluation

Environmental Factors in Creativity*

“…In light of Marks, Michael and Kaiser's (1961) analysis of creativity-in which a battery of twenty-one intellectual tests, creative attributes derived from peer evaluations on a situational rating scale and appropriate personality dimensions from a self-report inventory remained factorially independent of each other-evidence from researches which derive criterion groups by one or the other of these means can only have a supportive role, as the definitions of creativity used may be not merely operationally but substantively distinct. Furthermore, even if creativity is defined in terms of one broad class of observations, the use of discrepant operations of measurement could lead to discrepant findings.…”