Jaquish G A
Br J Psychol. 1983 Nov;74 (Pt 4):467-72. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1983.tb01879.x.
This study explored intra-individual variability in divergent thinking (fluency, flexibility, and originality) in response to audio, visual, and tactile stimuli. Forty-four participants responded to three divergent thinking tasks. The divergent thinking assessors were structurally similar (i.e. duration of task, amount of stimuli presented, time allowed for responding), but differed in that one was based on auditory stimuli, a second used visual stimuli, and the third required participants to respond to tactile stimuli. A within-subjects repeated measures research design was used; task treatment order was counterbalanced across subjects. A principal components factor analysis with oblique rotation distinguished three divergent thinking factors defined by sensory modality response preferences. Within-individual differences in level of originality appeared as a function of the kind of stimuli which served to evoke divergent thinking. Results are discussed in the light of the need for discriminating the dimensionality of creativity as a construct.
本研究探讨了个体在面对音频、视觉和触觉刺激时发散性思维（流畅性、灵活性和独创性）的个体内变异性。44名参与者对三项发散性思维任务做出了反应。发散性思维评估任务在结构上相似（即任务时长、呈现的刺激量、回答时间），但不同之处在于，一项基于听觉刺激，第二项使用视觉刺激，第三项要求参与者对触觉刺激做出反应。采用了被试内重复测量研究设计；任务处理顺序在各被试间进行了平衡。进行了带有斜交旋转的主成分因子分析，区分出了由感觉模态反应偏好定义的三个发散性思维因子。独创性水平的个体内差异表现为引发发散性思维的刺激类型的函数。根据区分创造力这一构念维度的必要性对结果进行了讨论。
