Approximately 8-10 people will be interviewed. They will be asked to speak about personal experiences in their own artistic pursuits. My hope is to include different types of artistically creative people, either amateur or professional. The interviews will be reviewed for similar response content in order to identify further the factors relating to qualities of the creative process and their benefits to the individual. The questionnaire will consist of two sections.
Subjects identify the frequency of past involvement in creative activities.
Participants will also be asked to identify any areas of training in the arts, the amount of time spent studying, and at what age this training was received. The second part of the questionnaire will look at different aspects of the creative process as identified through interviews with creative persons and based on current theories on the creative process. Through quantitative inquiry, the subjects will identify characteristics of their own experiences with the arts and the benefits that the artistic process has brought to their life. Other scales may be integrated into this measure in order to make further assertions about creativity.