02299nam a22002057a 4500 20231108114110.0 231108b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0022-0175 Simner, Julia What Factors Influence Children's Creative Artistic Orientation? The Novel Children's Creative Orientation Test: Artistic (Journal Article) Hoboken,NJ : Wiley Subscription Services Inc. , 2022 609-628p. The Journal of Creative Behaviour, Volume 56: Number 4, Fourth Quarter 2022 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract: Creative orientation is the extent to which different individuals are drawn toward creative activities (e.g., art, music). We know relatively little about child-level creative orientation given certain testing limitations. Adult tools often measure time spent engaged in creative pursuits, but this method is unsuitable for children because their free time is often dictated by parents. To overcome this, we devised an entirely novel measure of creative orientation, the Children's Creative Orientation Test: Artistic (C-COT: Artistic). This short task, suitable for children as young as 6, elicits children's creative urges toward artistic pursuits independently of parental influence and provides quantitative scoring. We applied our measure to over 3000 children aged 6–10 years, where it showed robust reliability, suggesting that creative orientation is a stable trait over time. We show that creative orientation is also influenced by classroom cohort, age, and gender but is unaffected by socio-economic status or seasonal changes (autumn vs. spring testing). We showed too that creative orientation converges with creative thinking (divergent thinking), creative personality (openness to experiences, especially the aesthetics subtrait), and creative engagements in the home. We present our test here in full, as a simple, fast, and robust measure of creative artistic orientation in children. creativity| creative orientation| divergent thinking| children Smees, Rebecca | Rinaldi, Louisa J. | Carmichael, Duncan A. | McDonald, Toby J. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.555 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2023-11-08 0 2023-11-08 00:00:00 2023-11-08 PER 44806 44805