Table 1 Measures used for this study, with number of items, example items, and internal consistency
Variable | Measure | Number of items | Example item | Cronbach’s alpha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Creative personality | Revised NEO-PI-R Subscale: Openness to experience (personality) (Costa & McCrae, 1995, German version: Ostendorf & Angleitner, 2004) | 17 | Protected by copyright | .84 |
Creative behavior | Revised NEO-PI-R Subscale: Openness to experience (behavior) (Costa & McCrae, 1995, German version: Ostendorf & Angleitner, 2004), additional items from Kim and Hull (2012) | 7 | Protected by copyright “In learning situations, task and problems should be solved according to previously acquired approaches” (r) (Kim & Hull, 2012) | .74 |
Creative production | Three tasks: Continuation Layout Combination (Jäger et al., 1997) | n/a | “Please draw as many forms as spontaneously come to mind when you think of the term XY.” (Layout) | .68 |
Preference for visual structure | Newly constructed | 4 | “I liked the visual structure of this environment” | .75 |
Impulse for activation | Newly constructed | 3 | “The learning environment stimulated me to engage with the material” | .91 |
Situational motivation | FAM, subscale: interest (Rheinberg et al., 2001) | 4 | “With learning tasks like this, I need no reward, it is enjoyable on its own” | .88 |