These four statements ask whether new approaches and original thinking feel descriptive of you. Answer for your usual experience, including ordinary work and daily life—not only artistic or unusually inventive moments.
Inside the assessment
This assessment uses the four-item balanced Originality/Creativity short scale from the IPIP-VIA-R. In quality-filtered quota samples from Germany (n=476) and the United Kingdom (n=474), the official materials report McDonald’s omega of .80/.79 and 2–3 week retest reliability of .79/.72. These figures describe group-level measurement in those samples, not the precision of one individual result.
Very Inaccurate through Very Accurate receive 1–5 points. The first two items are scored directly; the final two are reverse scored from 5 to 1. The four keyed values are summed for a total from 4 to 20.
4-item balanced IPIP-VIA-R Originality/Creativity short scale
Bluemke, Partsch, Saucier, & Lechner (2021)
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A brief, continuous summary of how strongly these four statements reflect generating new approaches and seeing yourself as original. It describes this answer pattern rather than creative performance or a fixed creative type.
Important limits
This four-item self-report describes how you answered a small set of originality-related statements today. It is not a percentile, intelligence or ability test, diagnosis, talent judgment, proof of creative output, or complete account of how you solve problems. Results can change with context and time.
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