Normative and psychometric characteristics of a polish version of the creative imagination scale

Abstract

111 Polish undergraduate students participated in a study designed to provide psychometric characteristics of the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS). These results were compared to those from American (Wilson & Barber, 1978) and Australian (Sheehan, McConkey, & Law, 1978) norm studies which also used CIS. The total scale score means of the three samples differed no more than .20 scale points; these differences were not statistically significant. This finding, together with a high consistency in item difficulty level among the three samples which were compared, indicates that cultural differences do not influence the major pattern of findings obtained with CIS. It was also found that CIS possesses high test-retest reliability (r = .79) and moderate split-half reliability (r = .50). Factor analysis yielded only one significant factor; this is congruent with results obtained by Wilson and Barber (1978).