Factors of Creativity and Temperament in the Assessment of Officers

Abstract

A factor analysis of the self-scores of 204 Marine officers on 21 aptitude tests of 11 hypothesized creative aptitudes, of the evaluations for these officers made by their superiors on a situational rating scale that was designed to reflect the same 11 creative aptitudes as well as a criterion variable of military leadership, and of self-scores on 10 scales of the G-Z Temperament Survey revealed 15 interpretable factors, each one of which was exclusively defined by variables within only one of the three types of assessment devices.