NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Miller, Angie L. – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
This study explores how exposure to creative coursework during one's education can influence a variety of educational, career, and community involvement outcomes for arts alumni. Data were drawn from over 40,000 undergraduate-level arts alumni from the 2015, 2016, and 2017 administrations of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP). A…
Descriptors: Creativity, Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, Alumni
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jauk, Emanuel; Eberhardt, Lisa; Koschmieder, Corinna; Diedrich, Jennifer; Pretsch, Jürgen; Benedek, Mathias; Neubauer, Aljoscha C. – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
This article introduces a new scale for the assessment of Appreciation for Creative Personality (ACP). The ACP scale is a brief 13-item forced-choice measure that assesses interindividual differences in the preference for interacting with creative people. ACP is considered an important factor of creative climate at the level of interpersonal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Personality, Creativity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pandya, Samta P. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
This article reports a study on the impact of spiritual training lessons as compared to creative arts lessons with a cohort of Indian and Sri Lankan doctoral students immigrated to the US. The aim was to examine programme effectiveness in mitigating their acculturative stress, promoting self-efficacy, and wellbeing. Spiritual training lessons were…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Creative Activities, Art Education, Lifelong Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kaufman, Scott Barry; Kozbelt, Aaron; Silvia, Paul; Kaufman, James C.; Ramesh, Sheela; Feist, Gregory J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
Creativity is sexy, but are all creative behaviors equally sexy? We attempted to clarify the role of creativity in mate selection among an ethnically diverse sample of 815 undergraduates. First we assessed the sexual attractiveness of different forms of creativity: ornamental/aesthetic, applied/technological, and everyday/domestic creativity. Both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Personality, Creativity, Sexuality
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kemmelmeier, Markus; Walton, Andre P. – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Previous research into gender and creativity has provided little evidence for consistent differences between men and women in creative performance. This research revisits this topic by proposing a person × situation approach, arguing that gender differences in creative performance only occur in certain contexts, but not others. Based on the…
Descriptors: Females, Males, Creativity, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lee, Il Rang; Kemple, Kristen – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among preservice teachers' personality traits, their own engagement in creative activities, and their beliefs about the teaching practices that have been shown to support children's creativity. A total of 302 early childhood and elementary preservice teachers participated in this study. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Personality Traits, Creative Activities, Participation
Rummel, Jason Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Jazz education has been a part of school music programs in the United States in both extracurricular and curricular settings since the 1920's. An enormous growth in the popularity of stage bands and jazz ensembles was experienced between the 1940's and 1980's resulting in a vibrant, widespread acceptance of jazz in the music curriculum (Luty,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Musicians