Hao Ning, Tang Mengying, Yang Jing, Wang Qifei, Runco Mark A
School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University Shanghai, China.
American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, San Diego CA, USA.
Front Psychol. 2016 May 18;7:682. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00682. eCollection 2016.
The present study developed the malevolent creativity behavior scale (MCBS), which contains 13 items and was designed to measure individuals' malevolent creativity through the behavior of daily lives. A total of 958 participants from different regions of China completed the MCBS in an online fashion. Cronbach's α coefficient, using the 908 MCBSs with entirely complete data, indicated that the MCBS had satisfactory reliability. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that the MCBS had 3 dimensions: hurting people, lying, and playing tricks. MCBS scores were positively correlated with individuals' aggression, openness, extraversion, and scores on the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale (RIBS). MCBS scores also predicted individuals' malevolent creativity performances when solving realistic, open-ended problems. The MCBS has a simple response medium and scoring procedure. This, along with the adequate psychometric properties uncovered here, indicates that it is a useful tool for research on malevolent creativity. Given that the MCBS contains a relatively small number of categories and items, further research could expand the categories of items and develop and test more items. Moreover, it would be useful to test MCBS's reliability and validity with other criteria. Perhaps future research could obtain actual MC data from criminal or other unambiguously malevolent samples.
本研究编制了恶意创造力行为量表（MCBS），该量表包含13个项目，旨在通过日常生活行为来测量个体的恶意创造力。共有958名来自中国不同地区的参与者以在线方式完成了MCBS。使用908份数据完全完整的MCBS计算得出的克朗巴哈α系数表明，MCBS具有令人满意的信度。探索性因素分析（EFA）和验证性因素分析（CFA）表明，MCBS有三个维度：伤人、说谎和耍手段。MCBS得分与个体的攻击性、开放性、外向性以及Runco创意行为量表（RIBS）得分呈正相关。MCBS得分还能预测个体在解决现实的、开放式问题时的恶意创造力表现。MCBS具有简单的作答方式和计分程序。结合本研究发现的良好心理测量学特性，这表明它是研究恶意创造力的一个有用工具。鉴于MCBS包含的类别和项目数量相对较少，未来的研究可以扩大项目类别，并开发和测试更多项目。此外，用其他标准来检验MCBS的信度和效度会很有帮助。也许未来的研究可以从罪犯或其他明确的恶意样本中获取实际的MC数据。
