Self-Perceptions of Creativity & Arts Participation, United States, 2018

This study investigates connections between arts-based creativity and other forms of creativity such as problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and social networking. Specifically, it explores individuals' creative inclinations and behaviors through two means. The first, a national survey of adults, provides insights on how adults of varied socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds across the United States perceive their own creativity. The second, a mixed-methods study with professional artists, provides a closer look at how artists perceive of themselves across multiple domains of creativity, and at how creativity fuels entrepreneurial approaches to shaping their careers. This collection is concerned with the former - the national survey. The primary objective of the national survey is to measure the ways that American adults experience and exercise creativity in their daily lives. The result of a rigorous survey design phase that included an extensive review of creativity literature and existing survey instruments across several academic disciplines, the survey features a wide range of questions on creative attitudes and behaviors. To be as inclusive as possible of the many different forms and expressions of creativity, the survey was specifically designed to probe respondents' self-perceptions of creativity across six creative "domains": artistic creativity, creativity in math/science, creativity in business/entrepreneurship, creativity in social settings, creativity in civic settings, and creativity in "everyday" activities. The survey also captures information on respondents' arts participation, in order to enable an examination of the relationships between arts participation and other types of creativity, as well as information on respondents' occupations and occupational values. While the survey primarily focuses on inward characteristics and behaviors, it also includes some questions designed to explore external environmental conditions that may impact one's ability to express creativity. Demographic information includes gender, race, education, marital status, income, location, and household size.

本研究探讨基于艺术的创造力与其他形式的创造力（如问题解决、创业和社会网络）之间的联系。具体而言，它通过两种方式来探究个体的创造力倾向和行为。首先，一项针对成人的全国性调查提供了关于美国不同社会经济和人口背景的成人如何感知自身创造力的见解。其次，一项结合了专业艺术家的混合方法研究，更深入地探讨了艺术家在多个创造力领域如何看待自己，以及创造力如何激发他们对职业生涯塑造的创业方法。本收集关注的是前者——全国性调查。全国性调查的主要目标是衡量美国成人在日常生活中体验和运用创造力的方式。该调查是在严格的调查设计阶段的结果，该阶段包括对多个学术学科中关于创造力的文献和现有调查工具的广泛审查，调查包含了一系列关于创造性态度和行为的广泛问题。为了尽可能涵盖众多不同形式的创造力，该调查专门设计用于探究受访者在六个创造性“领域”中对自己创造力的自我感知：艺术创造力、数学/科学创造力、商业/创业创造力、社交场合创造力、公共场合创造力和日常活动创造力。调查还捕捉了受访者的艺术参与信息，以便考察艺术参与与其他类型创造力之间的关系，以及受访者的职业和职业价值观信息。尽管该调查主要关注内在特征和行为，但也包括一些旨在探索可能影响个人表达创造力的外部环境条件的问题。人口统计数据包括性别、种族、教育程度、婚姻状况、收入、地理位置和家庭规模。