The Development of Inventories for Factors that Influence Creativity Development for Personnel in Technology and Information Industries

Author: Yu-chu Yeh(Graduate Institute of Education,National Sun Yat-Sen University)、Jing-jyi Wu(Foundation for Scholarly Exchange)、Ying-Yao Cheng(Graduate Institute of Education National Sun Yat-Sen University)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 45, No.2
Date：October 2000
Pages：39-63
DOI：10.6300/JNTNU.2000.45(2).03

Abstract：

The purpose of this study was to, based on interviews, develop three inventories for understanding factors that influence creativity development for personnel in technology and information industries. The inventories were The Inventory of personal-trait Factors to Creativity Development (IPF-CD), The Inventory of Family Factors to Creativity Development (IFF-CD), and The Inventory of School Factors to Creativity Development (ISF-CD). 283 personnel in technology and information industries participated in the pretest. The employed data analysis methods included content analysis, internal consistency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, Person correlation, t-test, frequency and descriptive analysis. The results revealed that all the three inventories developed in this study had satisfactory reliability and validity. IPF-CD comprised nine factors; the coefficients of Cronbach's α were .64 to .89 for the nine factors and .95 for the inventory. IFF-CD comprised two factors; the coefficients of Cronbach's α were .80 for the two factors and .83 for the inventory. ISF-CD comprised one factor; the coefficient of Cronbach's was .87. In terms of criterion-related validity, the three inventories were significantly correlated with self-report scores of degrees of creativity, rs were .51, .18, and .23, ps＜ .01, respectively.

Keywords：creativity development, family, personal traits, school technology and information

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