Perceptions of Barriers to Personal Creativity: Validation of an Inventory Involving High Education Students

Table 2: Means, Standard Deviations, Corrected Item Total x Correlations and Alfas of Cronbach, if item deleted. Co-efficients of Cronbach for each sub-scale and global scale (n=582)

	M	SD	cit	Alpha if…
Inhibition/Shyness (alpha =. 91)
1. I would believe more in myself.	3.61	1.271	.561	.902
2. I would be less timid in putting forward my ideas.	3.61	1.316	.625	.900
3. I would be more spontaneous.	3.43	1.250	.539	.903
5. I would not be so insecure.	3.46	1.315	.636	.899
6. I would be prepared to take more risks.	3.71	1.156	.536	.903
10. I would not be afraid of contradicting people.	2.86	1.335	.554	.903
16. I would not be afraid of confronting the unknown.	3.11	1.280	.568	.902
20. I would not be afraid of facing up to criticism.	3.16	1.287	.685	.897
21. I am not afraid to express what I think.	3.18	1.289	.718	.896
26. I would be more extroverted.	2.92	1.312	.530	.903
28. I would not feel inferior to others.	2.56	1.359	.596	.901
25. I would not be afraid of carrying out my ideas.	3.28	1.212	.702	.897
30. I would not be afraid of being misunderstood.	2.95	1.230	.577	.901
36. I would not be afraid of what others will think about me.	2.89	1.333	.689	.897
Lack of motivation (alpha=. 86)
11. I would not be so accommodating.	3.01	1.348	.532	.853
12. I would be less lazy.	3.04	1.464	.459	.858
13. I would have more motivation to create.	3.46	1.238	.536	.853
19. I would practice the habit of looking for new ideas more.	3.64	1.122	.511	.854
45. I would be more persistent.	3.48	1.174	.574	.851
58. I would be more dedicated in what I do.	3.28	2.179	.407	.873
59. I would have more energy.	3.30	1.319	.583	.849
62. I would be richer in ideas.	3.23	1.294	.572	.850
63. I would be more concentrated on what I do.	3.35	1.265	.634	.847
64. I would be more curious.	3.16	1.329	.653	.845
65. I would be more enthusiastic.	3.27	1.300	.719	.841
66. I would have more knowledge.	3.36	1.303	.548	.852
Lack of time/Opportunities (alpha=. 83)
15. I would have more time.	3.87	1.242	.321	.833
18. I would have greater recognition of my creative work.	3.55	1.171	.491	.815
22. I would have been more stimulated by my professors.	3.45	1.222	.436	.821
31. I would have more time to develop my ideas.	3.70	1.172	.487	.815
34. I would have more opportunity of putting my ideas into practice.	3.48	1.153	.667	.797
37. I would have more opportunity to explore my	3.55	1.094	.614	.803
potential.46. My ideas would be valued more.	3.39	1.091	.583	.806
48. There would be more co-operation between people.	3.60	1.104	.526	.811
53. People would value my new ideas more.54. There would be more respect of the differences between people.	3.65	1.134	.603	.803
Social repression (alpha=. 81)
32. I would have not been limited by my family	1.99	1.196	.541	.784
38. I would not have received such a strict education.	1.88	1.132	.597	.776
42. I would not have been limited by my professors.	2.36	1.215	.501	.790
43. I would have had more opportunities to be wrong without being considered stupid or an idiot.	2.83	1.383	.618	.771
44. Fosse menos criticado(a). I would be less critical.	2.47	1.191	.624	.772
52. I would have had greater acceptance of the fantasy in the way that I live. I would have had greater acceptance of the fantasy in the way that I live.	3.08	1.266	.447	.798
55. I would be less authoritarian.	2.07	1.069	.460	.795
57. I would not been so critical about the ideas of others.	2.47	1.136	.394	.804

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