In the first study, we observed that creativity evaluation skills are positively correlated with divergent thinking creativity and creative achievement, which suggests that evaluation skills are relevant for creative ideation as well as creative accomplishment.
Because the existing measures of everyday creativity and creative achievement differ substantially with respect to the included domains of creativity, we used a newly devised inventory that captures both constructs in a standardized way across the same major domains of real-life creativity.
Our results further suggest that everyday creativity and creative achievement should not be viewed as competing but rather as complementary concepts.
Therefore, this study aims at investigating the relationship between common psychometric indicators of creativity and real-life creative achievement by means of structural equation modelling.
Everyday creativity is considered a behavioural prerequisite of actual creative achievement, or as Richards (2010) put it: 'Everyday creativity can be seen as the ground from which (a later and) more publicly celebrated accomplishment can grow' (p. 193).
That ability to learn from experience was cited as the No. 1 ingredient for creative achievement in a poll of 143 creativity researchers cited in "Handbook of Creativity" in 1999.
The aim of this study was to disentangle several aspects of the multifaceted construct of creativity: We tested to which extent real-life creativity, in terms of everyday creative activities and actual creative achievement, is determined by creative potential, openness to experiences, and intelligence.
Scores on divergent thinking tests show positive correlations with involvement in real-life creative activities, self-rated creativity [3], as well as objective measures of creative achievement, even when controlling for IQ [4].
The LI task was included as a putative measure of creativity based largely on Eysenck's theory of creative achievement (Eysenck, 1993, 1995), which points to reduced LI as a marker of the overlap between high creative achievement and schizotypal personality.
As outlined later, everyday creativity can be considered a behavioural prerequisite of actual creative achievement.
