DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF CREATIVITY IN THE APPLICATION OF THE NURSING PROCESS.
Contributors: Gonzaga University.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to integrate the divergent thinking operation of Guilford's structure-of-intellect model with the nursing process, resulting in an instrument to measure the creative application of the nursing process.

The relationship between Guilford's terminology and Marriner's definition of the steps of the nursing process was found to have a Content Validity Index of.83. Individual tests, developed by Guilford and others, and used by him to assess specific aspects of divergent thinking, were altered in order to place them within a nursing framework, without changing the thinking process which the tests measured. The result was a norm-referenced, self-report, projective instrument.

A sample of 40 generic undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students in their final term participated in testing the instrument. Faculty members who had observed the students in the clinical setting the previous term, assessed the creativity of the students. Using Guilford's definition of divergent thinking, they rated the students for creative thinking according to a four point Likert scale. Students who represented the two extremes of the scale (1 and 2, 3 and 4) comprised contrasted groups. Construct validity was assessed using the results of the instrument testing for these two groups. An independent t-test was found to be non-significant at p =.05 and df =.38. The students' scores on the instrument were correlated with their self-perceptions of creativity as measured by a visual analogue scale and found to have a low positive correlation of.30.

Reliability of the instrument was assessed using Cronbach's alpha, inter-item correlations and correlations of each test to the other tests in the instrument. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was.57. Inter-item correlations were all positive, ranging from.30 to.67. Correlations of the individual tests within the instrument indicated from low to little, if any, correlation.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-01, Section: B, page: 0123.

Thesis (ED.D.)--GONZAGA UNIVERSITY, 1988.

School code: 0736.