Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale: Relationship to Occupation and Measurement Invariance across Gender

ABSTRACT

Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) is a self-report of creative behavior in five distinct domains. The present study aims to translate K-DOCS into Russian and evaluate its psychometric properties. The psychometric analysis was performed on a sample of adults recruited through Yandex Toloka (N = 1011; M_age = 35.94, SD_age = 10.95) from various regions of Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses indicated that the model with five correlated factors showed the best fit to empirical data. All factors demonstrated good internal consistency and moderate test–retest reliability. The correlation and hierarchical regression analyses for K-DOCS factors, creative achievements by CBI (Creative Behavior Inventory), and personality traits by BFI–2 (Big Five Inventory – 2) yielded evidence for an adequate level of convergent and discriminant validity. We also examined differences across K-DOCS factors among occupations defined by Holland’s typology and attempted to investigate K-DOCS measurement invariance across gender. As a result, we obtained evidence supporting the construct validity of K-DOCS and established its partial measurement invariance across gender. The current study shows that Russian K-DOCS has satisfactory psychometric properties and can serve as a trusted guide into various manifestations of humans’ creative behavior.

Acknowledgment

We wish to acknowledge the help provided by Daria Makarova with back-translation, Iana Bashmakova with the coding of data on occupations, and Zorana Ivcevic for useful comments on the earlier version of the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

The data and R code that support the findings of this study are openly available in the OSF repository at https://osf.io/g5bk4.

Notes

1. We also limited our focus to three instead of six subscales of CBI because we failed to communicate with the authors of original adaptation to receive a full version of the questionnaire. In this situation, we retrieved only 11 items translated to Russian that have been available from Lebedeva and Bushina (2015).

2. Supplementary materials are available at https://osf.io/g5bk4.

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Funding

This material is based on work supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Grant Award Number, 20STTPC00001-02. The views and conclusions included here are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.