This study expands on Novak-Leonard et al.’s study, “Innovative and artistic: Conceptions of creativity among the American public.” Self-perceived creativity scores were measured in a Likert scale across multiple domains.
Multivariate regression was used to determine the impacts of predictors of creativity in literature and measures of artistic involvement, as well as demographic controls.
Models support both occupational predictors of creativity and that creativity is independent from the arts.
Non-white respondents are associated with higher creativity scores, in addition to Northeast and West regions, which can be attributed to both regions having more metropolitan areas of greater diversity. This permits a wider range of cultural ideas, which maybe contribute to higher creativity scores. Further, these areas being industry hubs may contribute to more respondents in those areas scoring higher in industry-focused domains of creativity.
Higher education and males being associated with higher creativity scores supports Novak-Leonard et al.’s findings that greater structural privelege is associated with higher scores, also connecting to industry-focused domains.
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Dependent variable:
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meanselfperc
(1) (2) (3) (4)
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PEOPLENot Important -0.137*** -0.140***
(0.030) (0.031)
FEWARTINTDisagree -0.036 -0.038
(0.034) (0.035)
FEWARTINTNeither -0.101*** -0.125***
(0.037) (0.038)
USEFULNot Important -0.222*** -0.254***
(0.032) (0.032)
KNOWARTDisagree -0.084** -0.109**
(0.042) (0.043)
KNOWARTNeither -0.182*** -0.219***
(0.045) (0.047)
RACETHNICITYHispanic -0.144*** -0.147***
(0.044) (0.045)
RACETHNICITYOther -0.267*** -0.234***
(0.051) (0.052)
RACETHNICITYWhite -0.330*** -0.330***
(0.036) (0.036)
SEXMale 0.136*** 0.120***
(0.022) (0.022)
EDUCHS 0.217*** 0.226***
(0.039) (0.040)
EDUCSC 0.343*** 0.356***
(0.042) (0.043)
EDUCAS 0.353*** 0.366***
(0.050) (0.051)
EDUCBA 0.360*** 0.370***
(0.043) (0.043)
EDUCMA 0.332*** 0.351***
(0.050) (0.051)
EDUCPHD 0.425*** 0.451***
(0.069) (0.070)
REGION4(2) Midwest -0.145*** -0.137***
(0.035) (0.036)
REGION4(3) South -0.083*** -0.065**
(0.032) (0.032)
REGION4(4) West 0.013 0.036
(0.035) (0.035)
PEOPLENot Important:FEWARTINTDisagree -0.249*** -0.250***
(0.057) (0.058)
PEOPLENot Important:FEWARTINTNeither -0.164*** -0.190***
(0.056) (0.058)
USEFULNot Important:KNOWARTDisagree 0.049 0.084
(0.056) (0.058)
USEFULNot Important:KNOWARTNeither 0.088 0.115**
(0.056) (0.058)
Constant 3.182*** 3.224*** 3.214*** 3.291***
(0.055) (0.057) (0.019) (0.025)
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Observations 3,084 3,084 3,084 3,084
R2 0.130 0.109 0.058 0.035
Adjusted R2 0.125 0.103 0.057 0.034
Residual Std. Error 0.601 (df = 3065) 0.608 (df = 3065) 0.624 (df = 3078) 0.632 (df = 3078)
F Statistic 25.361*** (df = 18; 3065) 20.732*** (df = 18; 3065) 38.078*** (df = 5; 3078) 22.396*** (df = 5; 3078)
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Note: *p<0.1; **p<0.05; ***p<0.01
Call:
lm(formula = meanselfperc ~ RACETHNICITY, data = ., weights = WEIGHT1)
Weighted Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-6.6210 -0.2411 0.0379 0.3354 4.5380
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 3.33996 0.03447 96.883 < 2e-16 ***
RACETHNICITYHispanic -0.18967 0.04528 -4.189 2.88e-05 ***
RACETHNICITYOther -0.17248 0.05281 -3.266 0.0011 **
RACETHNICITYWhite -0.32030 0.03726 -8.597 < 2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Residual standard error: 0.634 on 3080 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.02693, Adjusted R-squared: 0.02598
F-statistic: 28.41 on 3 and 3080 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
Call:
lm(formula = meanselfperc ~ EDUC, data = ., weights = WEIGHT1)
Weighted Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-6.0459 -0.2792 -0.0054 0.2840 5.4574
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 2.85231 0.03429 83.176 < 2e-16 ***
EDUCHS 0.15130 0.04042 3.743 0.000185 ***
EDUCSC 0.31617 0.04302 7.350 2.53e-13 ***
EDUCAS 0.29319 0.05154 5.688 1.40e-08 ***
EDUCBA 0.32011 0.04302 7.441 1.29e-13 ***
EDUCMA 0.29764 0.05063 5.878 4.59e-09 ***
EDUCPHD 0.42376 0.07096 5.972 2.61e-09 ***
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Residual standard error: 0.6331 on 3077 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.0306, Adjusted R-squared: 0.02871
F-statistic: 16.19 on 6 and 3077 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
