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Forthmann, Boris; Holling, Heinz; Çelik, Pinar; Storme, Martin; Lubart, Todd – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
The need to control for writing or typing speed when assessing divergent-thinking performance has been recognized since the early '90s. An even longer tradition in divergent-thinking research has the issue of scoring the responses for quality. This research addressed both issues within structural equation modeling. Three dimensions of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Office Occupations, Structural Equation Models, Creativity
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Watts, Logan L.; Steele, Logan M.; Song, Hairong – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Prior studies have demonstrated inconsistent findings with regard to the relationship between need for cognition and creativity. In our study, measurement issues were explored as a potential source of these inconsistencies. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to examine the factor structure underlying the 18-item need for cognition…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Structural Equation Models
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Hong, Eunsook; O'Neil, Harold F.; Peng, Yun – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Effects of explicit instructions, metacognition, and intrinsic motivation on creative homework performance were examined in 303 Chinese 10th-grade students. Models that represent hypothesized relations among these constructs and trait covariates were tested using structural equation modelling. Explicit instructions geared to originality were…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Motivation, Creativity, Grade 10
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Ahmetoglu, Gorkan; Harding, Xanthe; Akhtar, Reece; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Creativity is a key ingredient of organizational effectiveness, business innovation, and entrepreneurship. Yet there remain substantial gaps in the literature in terms of understanding the antecedents of creative achievement. This study investigated the effect of perfectionism, employee engagement, and entrepreneurial potential as predictors of…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Individual Differences
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Puente-Díaz, Rogelio; Cavazos-Arroyo, Judith – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Two studies examined the influence of encouragement for creativity, curiosity, harmonious passion, and autonomy support as antecedents of creative self-efficacy and imagination and divergent thinking as consequences. College students completed a battery of questionnaires. Structural equation modeling treating the variables as latent and not…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Self Efficacy, College Students
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Meléndez, Juan C.; Alfonso-Benlliure, Vicente; Mayordomo, Teresa; Sales, Alicia – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
The purpose of the study was to test a model of causal relationships among cognitive reserve (CR), personality variables such as Neuroticism and Openness to experience, and divergent thinking (DT), independently evaluating performance in different domains (verbal and graphic). It was hypothesized that CR, Openness, and Neuroticism would each…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Older Adults, Predictor Variables, Causal Models