ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation I... more ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (MI) were compared with divergent production scores on Guilford's Consequences and Alternate Uses tests. On the Consequences test, adaptors and innovators produced approximately equal numbers of common responses, but the innovators produced a higher number of uncommon (remote) responses, and a higher number of responses in total. Innovators also produced more responses than adaptors on ...
Research has shown that creative style, as measured by the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (... more Research has shown that creative style, as measured by the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI; M. J. Kirton, 1976), is correlated with more than 30 different personality traits. In this article, the author demonstrates that many of these correlations can be understood within the framework of the Five-Factor Model of personality and shows that the predominant correlates of creative style are personality indicators in the domains of the factors Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience, and, to a lesser extent, Extraversion. These findings provide a basis for comparing the personality traits associated with creative style and occupational creativity. High scorers on the KAI (innovators) differ from both average and creative scientists but have personality characteristics similar to those of artists. This finding suggests that the artistic personality may be more common than is generally supposed and that common factors might underlie both artistic endeavor and creative style.
ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation I... more ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (MI) were compared with divergent production scores on Guilford's Consequences and Alternate Uses tests. On the Consequences test, adaptors and innovators produced approximately equal numbers of common responses, but the innovators produced a higher number of uncommon (remote) responses, and a higher number of responses in total. Innovators also produced more responses than adaptors on ...
Senior level managers have a stronger preference for conceptualization than lower level employees... more Senior level managers have a stronger preference for conceptualization than lower level employees who have a stronger preference for implementation. Differences in creative problem solving style were also discovered among occupations, reflecting different cognitive demands of the work environment.
The current paper is a study of the predictive validity of the Basadur Creative Problem Solving P... more The current paper is a study of the predictive validity of the Basadur Creative Problem Solving Profile (CPSP). The results show that the profile is highly predictive of activity preferences of Generators, Conceptualizers, and Implementers. The support for Optimizers' predicted preferences was also substantial. Of fifty considered response categories, twenty-three were highly associated with the quadrant typology.
This paper reports an empirical study of person-vocation fit and person-organizational hierarchy ... more This paper reports an empirical study of person-vocation fit and person-organizational hierarchy level fit based on the construct, cognitive fit. Cognitive fit refers to the degree of match between an individual’s cognitive style of problem solving and the style demanded by the work context. Based on the analysis of 3,942 completed Creative Problem Solving Profile inventories over a broad cross section of organizations, the results support the argument that certain occupations, or vocations, do tend to favor specific cognitive problem solving styles. Additionally, the results offer evidence that the cognitive styles favored or demanded by organizations change as one’s career advances into higher levels of the organizational hierarchy. In particular the results showed that the ratio of Conceptualization cognitive style to Implementation cognitive style of organizational members increases at increasingly higher organizational hierarchical levels. These findings also lend support to re...
The Creative Problem Solving Profile (CPSP) is an instrument designed to measure an individual’s ... more The Creative Problem Solving Profile (CPSP) is an instrument designed to measure an individual’s preferred creative style in terms of two bipolar dimensions: the apprehension of knowledge and utilization of knowledge. These two dimensions are related to a staged process of applied creativity, and preferred cognitive state differences in each stage. We review and expand the theory underlying the CPSP and report a program of significant continuous improvement of the psychometric properties of the CPSP since it was first introduced. We provide evidence that the current instrument enjoys excellent internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Finally, we suggest avenues for future research building upon the concept of cognitive problem solving style in the fields of group diversity and group conflict using an instrument that directly maps individuals’ cognitive problem solving style onto the creative problem solving process.
The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) was administered to a group of advertising and d... more The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) was administered to a group of advertising and design creatives and to a comparable group of professionals and managers in occupations that were not evidently creative. The creatives were substantially more neurotic and more open to experience than the noncreatives, somewhat more extraverted, and less conscientious. Personality profiles suggesting low levels of ego control were more prevalent in the creatives group, but the difference was not significant. These findings are discussed in the light of Otto Rank's theory of creative development and in the context of commercial creativity. It is suggested that advertising and design creatives can be characterized as individuals at the intermediate stage of Rankian creative development.
ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation I... more ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (MI) were compared with divergent production scores on Guilford's Consequences and Alternate Uses tests. On the Consequences test, adaptors and innovators produced approximately equal numbers of common responses, but the innovators produced a higher number of uncommon (remote) responses, and a higher number of responses in total. Innovators also produced more responses than adaptors on ...
Research has shown that creative style, as measured by the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (... more Research has shown that creative style, as measured by the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI; M. J. Kirton, 1976), is correlated with more than 30 different personality traits. In this article, the author demonstrates that many of these correlations can be understood within the framework of the Five-Factor Model of personality and shows that the predominant correlates of creative style are personality indicators in the domains of the factors Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience, and, to a lesser extent, Extraversion. These findings provide a basis for comparing the personality traits associated with creative style and occupational creativity. High scorers on the KAI (innovators) differ from both average and creative scientists but have personality characteristics similar to those of artists. This finding suggests that the artistic personality may be more common than is generally supposed and that common factors might underlie both artistic endeavor and creative style.
ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation I... more ABSTRACT In a sample of British working men and women, scores on the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (MI) were compared with divergent production scores on Guilford's Consequences and Alternate Uses tests. On the Consequences test, adaptors and innovators produced approximately equal numbers of common responses, but the innovators produced a higher number of uncommon (remote) responses, and a higher number of responses in total. Innovators also produced more responses than adaptors on ...
Senior level managers have a stronger preference for conceptualization than lower level employees... more Senior level managers have a stronger preference for conceptualization than lower level employees who have a stronger preference for implementation. Differences in creative problem solving style were also discovered among occupations, reflecting different cognitive demands of the work environment.
The current paper is a study of the predictive validity of the Basadur Creative Problem Solving P... more The current paper is a study of the predictive validity of the Basadur Creative Problem Solving Profile (CPSP). The results show that the profile is highly predictive of activity preferences of Generators, Conceptualizers, and Implementers. The support for Optimizers' predicted preferences was also substantial. Of fifty considered response categories, twenty-three were highly associated with the quadrant typology.
This paper reports an empirical study of person-vocation fit and person-organizational hierarchy ... more This paper reports an empirical study of person-vocation fit and person-organizational hierarchy level fit based on the construct, cognitive fit. Cognitive fit refers to the degree of match between an individual’s cognitive style of problem solving and the style demanded by the work context. Based on the analysis of 3,942 completed Creative Problem Solving Profile inventories over a broad cross section of organizations, the results support the argument that certain occupations, or vocations, do tend to favor specific cognitive problem solving styles. Additionally, the results offer evidence that the cognitive styles favored or demanded by organizations change as one’s career advances into higher levels of the organizational hierarchy. In particular the results showed that the ratio of Conceptualization cognitive style to Implementation cognitive style of organizational members increases at increasingly higher organizational hierarchical levels. These findings also lend support to re...
The Creative Problem Solving Profile (CPSP) is an instrument designed to measure an individual’s ... more The Creative Problem Solving Profile (CPSP) is an instrument designed to measure an individual’s preferred creative style in terms of two bipolar dimensions: the apprehension of knowledge and utilization of knowledge. These two dimensions are related to a staged process of applied creativity, and preferred cognitive state differences in each stage. We review and expand the theory underlying the CPSP and report a program of significant continuous improvement of the psychometric properties of the CPSP since it was first introduced. We provide evidence that the current instrument enjoys excellent internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Finally, we suggest avenues for future research building upon the concept of cognitive problem solving style in the fields of group diversity and group conflict using an instrument that directly maps individuals’ cognitive problem solving style onto the creative problem solving process.
The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) was administered to a group of advertising and d... more The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) was administered to a group of advertising and design creatives and to a comparable group of professionals and managers in occupations that were not evidently creative. The creatives were substantially more neurotic and more open to experience than the noncreatives, somewhat more extraverted, and less conscientious. Personality profiles suggesting low levels of ego control were more prevalent in the creatives group, but the difference was not significant. These findings are discussed in the light of Otto Rank's theory of creative development and in the context of commercial creativity. It is suggested that advertising and design creatives can be characterized as individuals at the intermediate stage of Rankian creative development.
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