Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol 18(5), Oct 2024, 699-715; doi:10.1037/aca0000526
Creative ideation constitutes an important human skill to develop innovative solutions in science and technology and to overcome daily challenges. Although creative ideation takes place in everyday life situations, the moment-to-moment dynamics of creative ideation performance has not been intensively investigated so far. Fortunately, well-developed methods exist to assess creative ideation performance in controlled settings that can be adopted for assessments in real-life contexts. In the present field-study, a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC) was applied to a sample of 77 participants for 5 days. Each day, participants had to complete 12 randomly presented items of two divergent thinking tasks—half in the verbal and half in the figural domain. Psychometric analyses indicated good between-person (≥ .84) and within-person (≥ .70) reliability. Furthermore, between-person and within-person validity evidence of the ABC was obtained. This study constitutes a first attempt to develop a reliable and valid ABC to measure both individual differences and moment-to-moment fluctuations of creative ideation performance in everyday life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)