Ability, demographic and personality predictors of creativity

In all 10, 415 adult Finish managers attending an assessment centre completed a battery of tests including a personality trait measure (revised Personality Research Form), three ability tests and a well established measure of divergent thinking (DT) (Consequences Test). Gender, but not age nor education was a significant predictor of DT. Two of the three ability tests were correlated with DT. Various facet scores were correlated with DT but at the domain level it was only the Extraversion factor that proved significant. A regression indicated that bright, Extraverted males did better at the DT test. Implications and limitations are considered.