Data from: 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 two
objects.