Measuring the muses: Validating the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS).

Abstract

The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) is a self-report, domain-specific measure assessing creativity in 5 domains: Everyday, Scholarly, Performance, Science, and the Arts. J. C. Kaufman (2012) provided initial evidence for the K-DOCS' factor structure. However, the factor structure requires replication and the measure has not been validated. The current study examines the factor structure of the K-DOCS and applies the Amusement Park Theoretical hierarchical model as a framework to establish validation evidence. Adults from Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) (N ϭ 825) and Poland (N ϭ 500) completed the K-DOCS and a measure of the Big Five. The Polish sample also completed other creativity (e.g., CAQ, creative self-beliefs) and noncreativity (e.g., intelligence, dark triad) measures. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated the factor structure of the K-DOCS was reliable. Additionally, we demonstrate convergent and discriminant validity of the 5 K-DOCS factors based on their correlations with domaingeneral predictors of creativity and domain-specific predictors. We also explored the existence of latent profiles and found that the measure was not well represented with a profile structure. The current study demonstrates that the K-DOCS is a reliable and valid measure for assessing domain-specific creativity.

Openness to experience and creativity: When does global citizenship matter?

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Personality predictors of creative achievement and lawbreaking behavior

“…One could suppose that the association of undesirable behaviors and creative accomplishments of successful artists or scientists is merely an effect of higher status or power that stems from gaining recognition in a domain (see e.g., Piff et al 2012). Yet, such relationships have also been observed between mini-and little-c creativity (Kaufman and Beghetto 2009), and such traits as moral flexibility, dishonesty and deception (Beaussart et al 2013;Gino and Ariely 2012;Gino and Wiltermuth 2014;Kapoor and Khan 2017;Silvia et al 2011;Walczyk et al 2008), narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism (Jonason et al 2017;Jonason et al 2015;McKay et al 2017), as well as difficulty in recognizing one's own and others' emotions (Zenasni and Lubart 2009), emotional disinhibition and tendency to risk-taking (Galang et al 2016), psychoticism (Eysenck 1993), aggressive outbursts, lawbreaking and unethical behavior (Johnson 1983;Mai et al 2015).…”

Validacija slovenske oblike Kaufmanovega vprašalnika ustvarjalnih področij

“…Število postavk je zmanjšal s 94 na 50, pri čemer je izločil postavke, ki niso bile visoko nasičene z nobeno komponento (< 0,40), in tiste, ki so bile približno enako nasičene z več faktorji. Petfaktorsko strukturo vprašalnika so potrdili tudi pri mednarodnem vzorcu udeležencev, ki so vprašalnik izpolnjevali v angleškem jeziku in na vzorcu poljskih udeležencev (McKay, Karwowski in Kaufman, 2017).…”