CREATIONS Pre-Study CPAC factor analysis

This are data of a pre-study in the frame work of the Horizon2020 EU Project CREATIONS. We searched for a valid way of empirically quantifying of creativity of adolescents. The original 10-item Likert-scale questionnaire CPAC (Cognitive Processes associated with Creativity) was translated in 6 languages and administred in 8 countries to a sample of 2713 students, aged 11-19 (M± SD: 15.71 ± 2.24; 54.7% females). (For this public data set some data had to be removed from the original set for reasons of data prtection.) The factor analysis revealed two subscales: one, labelled CPAC <em>Act</em>, covering conscious and trainable cognitive processes; the second, named CPAC <em>Flow</em>, contained items describing elements of flow experiences, a mental state of creativity. No gender differences were found.