| America has a rich history of innovation and creativity, but recently Kim (2011) found that America is becoming less creative. Thus creativity researchers are called upon to understand, assess and enhance creativity and the arts. In the present study, the different strategies used during the artistic creative process were investigated (Bar-on, 2007) in addition to how they are related to the Big Five personality traits. Finally, it discusses the psychometric properties and concurrent validity of the Approaches Creative Process Questionnaire (ACPQ). Seventy-three undergraduate students answered questions about their personality, made a clay sculpture, and then answered questions about the process they used to make the sculpture in an interview and then on the ACPQ. The ACPQ is in its early stages of development and presently has two subscales that measure the planned (α = .79) and associative (α = .72) approaches to the creative process. It was hypothesized that the ACPQ's subscales would correlate with the interview responses, but the hypothesis was not supported. Of the Big Five, Openness to experience was the only trait correlated with the creative process approaches. |
