THE CREATIVITY STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE - REVISED

This study describes the development of the Creativity Styles Question naire-Revised (CSQ-R; Kumar & Holman, 1989). This questionnaire measur es beliefs about and strategies for going about being creative. Partic ipants were 273 freshmen students in a psychology course. Cronbach alp has for the 7 subscales of the CSQ-R ranged between .45 and .81, with a median reliability of .74. Students were divided into high- and low- creativity groups based an 3 self-report measures of creativity capaci ty. Those in the high-creativity group were more inclined than the oth er students to report (a) having a stronger belief in unconscious proc esses, (b) using more techniques to be creative, and (c) being less co ncerned about developing a final product.