Table 1.
Participant verbal report and task response metrics.
| SI | SN | WI | WN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Female | 7 (54%) | 6 (50%) | 5 (42%) | 8 (67%) |
| Age | 24.38 ± 4.22 (1.22) | 28.50 ± 12.9 (3.89) | 26.83 ± 4.9 (1.48) | 27.33 ± 5.27 (1.59) |
| Baseline Creative Self-Efficacy | 7.54 ± 1.34 (0.39) | 8.08 ± 1.11 (0.34) | 7.18 ± 2.08 (0.66) | 7.55 ± 1.16 (0.37) |
| Verbal Reports | ||||
| # Reports | 5.15 ± 1.41 (0.41) | 5.75 ± 2.13 (0.64) | 4.66 ± 0.62 (0.19) | 4.00 ± 0.37 (0.11) |
| % Reports w/ “tree” reference | 70.29 ± 33.66 (9.12) | 1.39 ± 4.61 (1.39) | 52.36 ± 34.92 (10.53) | 0.0 ± 0.0 (0.0) |
| # “Tree” references per report | 1.25 ± 0.79 (0.228) | 0.01 ± 0.05 (0.014) | 0.9 ± 1.03 (0.309) | 0.0 ± 0.0 (0.0) |
| Report length (# words) | 14.00 ± 9.86 (2.85) | 8.71 ± 4.17 (1.26) | 22.78 ± 23.67 (7.14) | 18.58 ± 7.75 (2.34) |
| Creativity Ratings | ||||
| Creativity Index | 0.79 ± 0.50 (0.15) | − 0.07 ± 0.70 (0.21) | − 0.32 ± 0.71 (0.21) | − 0.47 ± 0.77 (0.23) |
| CST | 5.74 ± 0.99 (0.29) | 4.78 ± 1.32 (0.40) | 4.11 ± 1.27 (0.38) | 4.17 ± 1.48 (0.45) |
| AUT | 4.21 ± 0.72 (0.21) | 3.25 ± 0.88 (0.27) | 2.69 ± 0.99 (0.30) | 2.58 ± 1.13 (0.34) |
| VGT | 3.06 ± 0.31 (0.09) | 2.65 ± 0.40 (0.12) | 2.73 ± 0.28 (0.08) | 2.58 ± 0.31 (0.10) |
| Semantic Distance | ||||
| Semantic Distance Index | 0.37 ± 0.45 (0.13) | 0.15 ± 0.65 (0.20) | − 0.22 ± 0.62 (0.19) | − 0.33 ± 0.73 (0.22) |
| CST | 0.68 ± 0.04 (0.01) | 0.68 ± 0.03 (0.01) | 0.66 ± 0.03 (0.01) | 0.67 ± 0.04 (0.01) |
| AUT | 0.66 ± 0.04 (0.01) | 0.64 ± 0.05 (0.02) | 0.62 ± 0.05 (0.02) | 0.59 ± 0.07 (0.02) |
| VGT | 0.74 ± 0.05 (0.02) | 0.72 ± 0.07 (0.02) | 0.70 ± 0.07 (0.02) | 0.69 ± 0.05 (0.02) |
| Verbal report concept incorporation in task responses (# participants) | ||||
| CST | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| AUT | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| VGT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(Top) N: Number of participants in each group, Female: Number and percent of female participants in each group, Age: Mean ± Std. Dev (S.E.M.). (Middle) Creative Self-Efficacy, Verbal Reports, Creativity Ratings, and Semantic Distance: Mean ± Std. Dev. (S.E.M.) for creative self-efficacy, verbal reports, creativity task response ratings (including the composite Creativity Index and the creativity ratings of individual task responses), and semantic distance metrics (including the Semantic Distance Index and measurement of semantic distance in individual task responses). (Bottom) Verbal Report Concept Incorporation in Task Responses: Number of participants for each task where content from the participant’s verbal reports was incorporated into their task response.