Playfulness, ideas and creativity: a survey

This paper investigates whether self-reports about playfulness are related to self-reports about creativity and the alternate uses of objects. An on-line survey was conducted of how people think about themselves. 1536 people completed the survey. They were asked whether a variety of statements were very characteristic of themselves through to whether they were very uncharacteristic. Respondents were then asked to offer alternative uses for two different objects. Those people who characterised themselves as being playful clearly thought of themselves as being creative. The self-reports of their playfulness, creativity and innovation were positively correlated with each other and were validated with their suggested uses for two different objects. Personality measures were derived from the respondents’ self-assessments. On the Openness scale the measure was positively correlated with the respondents’ assessments of their own playfulness and with the number of alternative uses for tw...

本研究旨在探讨个体的游戏性自我报告，是否与其创造力自我报告以及物体替代用途的自我报告之间存在关联。本研究通过线上问卷调查收集数据，以了解参与者对自身的认知，最终共有1536名参与者完成问卷。参与者需对一系列陈述进行评分，评分区间覆盖从“完全符合自身特质”至“完全不符合自身特质”。随后，要求参与者为两种不同的物体列举替代用途。将自身特质描述为富有游戏性的参与者，同样会认为自身具备创造力。参与者的游戏性、创造力与创新性自我报告之间均呈显著正相关，且该结果通过其为两种物体提出的替代用途得到了验证。人格特质测评分数由参与者的自我评估结果得出。在开放性（Openness）量表中，该测评指标与参与者对自身游戏性的评估结果，以及其提出的物体替代用途数量均呈显著正相关。