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AbstractPrinciples similar to the Act Frequency Approach (Buss and Craik, 1980) were applied to the construct of creativity. At first, a sample of 29 subjects generated acts, i.e. concrete behaviours‐in‐situations which due to their cognitive structure were indicative of creativity. As a second step, another group (N = 48) rated the prototypicality of the individual acts. A third sample of 102 subjects responded to the creativity acts in the sense of a self‐report. Peer ratings of creativity served as criterion measures. The scores of the relatively high‐prototypical creativity inventory correlated about 0.40 with the criteria, whereas the coefficients of the relatively low‐prototypical creativity inventory were approximately 0.20. With one exception, the validity of several other creativity tests was also very low, in keeping with the effect of their varying degree of prototypicality. In total, these results suggest that creativity can be assessed more successfully on the basis of questionnaires than with items of the common ability format, or with trait‐descri

ISSN:0890-2070    

DOI:10.1002/per.2410050402

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis study examines the construct validity of the revised version of the Strelau Temperament Inventory (STI‐R) and the short scale (STI‐RS), which were introduced by Strelau, Angleitner, Bantelmann and Ruch (1990). Hypotheses about the relationship between the content scales of the STI‐R, viz. Strength of Excitation (SE), Strength of Inhibition (SI), and Mobility (MO) of CNS properties, and (a) other personality/temperament dimensions referring to the level of arousal, (b) selected temperament inventories, and (c) selected personality scales are derived and tested in a total of four samples with altogether 420 Ss. The inventories investigated include, among others, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire—Revised (EPQ‐R), Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS), the I.7 Impulsiveness Questionnaire (I.7), the Affect‐Intensity‐Measure (AIM), the EASI, the Structure of Temperament Questionnaire (STQ), and the Revised Dimensions of Temperament Survey (DOTS‐R). In general, the hypotheses regarding the place of the STI‐R in the temperament and personality domain were confirmed. A factor analysis of the STI‐R, EASI, and DOTS‐R yielded five factors: Emotional Stability, Rhythmicity, Activity/Tempo, Sociability, and Impulsivity v

ISSN:0890-2070    

DOI:10.1002/per.2410050403

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe hypothesis of a bandwidth/fidelity trade‐off among personality‐descriptive categories that differ in level was investigated for 25 personality‐descriptive categories. Two measures of inclusiveness, a rating of category breadth and the grammatical form of the category descriptor (verb or adjective), correlated substantially. Bandwidth and fidelity of the categories were measured by analysing the distributions of prototypicality ratings in a sample of naturally occurring activities. It was found that broad categories refer to more exemplars than narrow categories, whereas the exemplars of narrow categories are more prototypical. Such a bandwidth/fidelity trade‐off however, is not found for adjectives and verbs. Rather, adjectives have a lower fidelity but not a broader bandwidth than verbs, and they are therefore the less informative behaviour desc

ISSN:0890-2070    

DOI:10.1002/per.2410050404

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0890-2070    

DOI:10.1002/per.2410050401

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY