Development of Influential Factors of Creativity Scale for College Students

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10.2991/emle-18.2018.68How to use a DOI?

Keywords

college student; creativity; influential factors; validity; reliability; psychometrics

Abstract

This study is to develop the Influential Factors of Creativity Scale for College Students (IFCSCS), test its validity and reliability, and explore the effective tools for the study. Total 654 college students were selected. All participants were divided into entry port analysis and exploratory factor analysis; according to another sample, 559 people were conducted confirmatory factor analysis. As a result, the developed scale consisted of 18 projects, including 4 factors, the creativity education in school, creative thinking and skills, social creativity atmosphere and creative personality. Totally 61.462% of the total variance was explained. It had satisfied structure validity. The Cronbach coefficient was 0.911 for the whole scale and 0.755-0.842 for the 4 factors. It can be concluded that the development of influential factors of creativity scale for college students possesses a good validity and reliability, and could be used as a tool to measure the influential factors of creativity for college students.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Deng Shutian
PY  - 2018/12
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TI  - Development of Influential Factors of Creativity Scale for College Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 380
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SN  - 2352-5428
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