Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Imaginative Capability Scale

Liang, Chaoyun; Chia, Tsorng-Lin

doi:10.1080/10400419.2014.873671

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“…By contrast, flexibility refers to the capability to generate thoughts, behaviors, or works which are considered appropriate, effective, or valuable and useful in or for human society at large. Furthermore, the current study lent additional support to the factor structure of the ICS (Liang & Chia, 2014). The three-factor solution explained that human imagination can be categorized into three types, namely, initiating, conceiving, and transforming imaginations.…”

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“…The ICS was a 29-item scale which was composed of three subscales: initiating, conceiving, and transforming imaginations. In the study of Liang and Chia (2014), the factor loadings of initiating imagination ranged from .435 to .937; those of conceiving imagination ranged from .330 to .934; and those of transforming imagination ranged from .502 to .913. The Cronbach's a value of initiating imagination was .918; that of conceiving imagination was .880; and that of transforming imagination was .896.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This instrument was designed with an aim to be both empirically valid and easy to administer. We then combined this scale with the International English Big-Five Mini-Markers (BFMM; Thompson, 2008) and Imaginative Capability Scale (ICS; Liang & Chia, 2014) to test the combined effects of creativity, imagination, and personality on the academic performance of university design students. In the current study, the grade point average (GPA) was used to measure student academic performance.…”

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The Interplay of Creativity, Imagination, Personality Traits, and Academic Performance

Liang

Lin

2015

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Three separate studies were conducted to examine the combined effects of creativity, imagination, and personality traits on the academic performance of design students. Both parallel analysis and exploratory factor analysis were conducted in Study 1 to determine the appropriate structure of the Creativity Capability Scale in a sample of 148 university students. A two-factor structure, with explained variables of 50.02%, identified originality and flexibility dimensions of creativity. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted in Study 2 to confirm the established structure of the Creativity Capability Scale in a sample of 436 university design students. Additionally, we also confirmed the structures of the Imaginative Capability Scale and the Big-Five Mini-Markers using the same sample. The analyses of composite reliability and construct validity gave good support to all the scales employed in this study. Study 3 then tested the combined effects on academic performance in a sample of 429 design students. Student performance was measured with grade point average. The hypothesis of Study 3-that conceiving imagination played a mediator role between creativity/imagination/personality and academic performance-was partially supported. The data showed that flexibility had the strongest indirect effect on academic performance, followed by conscientiousness, initiating imagination, transforming imagination, and extroversion.

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Lin

2015

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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“…Alternatively, these results could be a product of a methodological problem insteadthe adapted version of Hsu and colleagues' (2014) measure adopted to assess imaginativeness might not have been entirely suitable. Notwithstanding such a concern however, it was previously indicated that studies have broadly substantiated the psychometric properties of the measure and its associated versions (e.g., Hsu et al, 2014;Liang & Chia, 2014;Lin et al, 2014). Thus, future research work should explore a range of possibilities in accounting for the current findings while examining the formulation as a whole.…”

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Testing the unsolved problems hypothesis: The evolutionary life issues-mitigating function of nature exposure and its relationship with human well-being

Jiaqing

Kavanagh

Brüne

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Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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Theories on the benefits of spending time in natural settingsa growingly crucial topic in a progressively urbanized worldhave been developed with varying success, and none could comprehensively illuminate the evolutionary underpinnings of this phenomenon. This paper posits that the alleviation of unsolved life problems by means of unique personal (imaginativeness) and environmental (nature exposure) factors and their synthesis, so as to free up opportunities for other evolutionarily-essential tasks in humans, is posited to be pivotalthe unsolved problems hypothesis. Six hundred participants completed a study testing these assumptions on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Results highlight the relevance of unsolved existential issues in environmental (but not personal or integrative) influences on the majority of well-being indicators (e.g., extent of psychotic symptoms, annual income and procreative outcomes). Findings could initiate new lines of enquiry to unravel the evolutionary mechanism underlying a phenomenon that has huge implications for human functioning and well-being.

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“…Highly imaginative designers can create new forms of meaning and conjure new realities [1,2]. This capacity, known as initiating imagination, is the capability to explore the unknown and productively initiate novel ideas [3]. Initiating imagination is evaluated using two indicators, namely novelty and productivity.…”

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Comparison of the brain activations of experienced and novice designers engaged in initiating imagination

Liang¹,

Liu²

2018

J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Imaginative Capability Scale

Cited by 34 publications

References 29 publications

The Interplay of Creativity, Imagination, Personality Traits, and Academic Performance

The Interplay of Creativity, Imagination, Personality Traits, and Academic Performance

Testing the unsolved problems hypothesis: The evolutionary life issues-mitigating function of nature exposure and its relationship with human well-being

Comparison of the brain activations of experienced and novice designers engaged in initiating imagination

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