Your Result is: 63
10-21: Strong Adaptive Preference
22-34: Moderate Adaptive Preference
35-50: Mild Adaptive Preference
50-65: Mild Innovative Preference
66-78: Moderate Innovative Preference
79-90: Strong Innovative Preference
Introduction & Background: What is Creative Style?
Creative style is a stable cognitive preference that reflects the characteristic manner in which you solve problems, make decisions, and seek to bring about change. In other words, it reflectsthe way in which you are creative. Among general populations (and across continents and cultures), creative style spans a wide bipolar spectrum in a normal distribution (see the graph below), ranging from those with a strong preference for more structure to those with a strong preference for less structure. M. J. Kirton* , one of the leading scholars in this field, uses the terms “highly adaptive” and “highly innovative” to describe these two poles, respectively, with most people falling somewhere in between (see Note). For accuracy, we use the terms “more adaptive” and“more innovative” to describe our style preferences relative to others.
Understanding Your Results: What Does Your Estimate Mean?
In the graph below, we have separated the creative style spectrum into six segments that cover the full range from highly adaptive to highly innovative. Your results provide an estimate of where you lie in terms of your cognitive preference for structure. Moving from left to right along the spectrum, the preference for structure decreases. So, a person with a mildly innovative creative style prefers more structure than someone with a strongly innovative creative style; that same person prefers less structure than someone with a moderately adaptive creative style – and so on. In other words, it’s relative!
To gain an appreciation for how your creative style impacts your life in different ways and contexts, look over the descriptions in the table below and judge for yourself how each description/behavior applies to you. You may find it helpful to draw a line through any descriptions that don’t sound like you at all, and then underline, circle, or highlight those that do. If your preference is mildly adaptive or innovative, you may be comfortable with descriptions/behaviors in both columns. If you are moderately adaptive or innovative, you are probably comfortable with many of the descriptions/behaviors in one column, but may also be comfortable with a few of the descriptions/behaviors in the other column. If you arestrongly adaptive or innovative, then you are probably comfortable with most or all of the descriptions/behaviors in one column and may not be comfortable with any descriptions from the other column.
To Find Out More: If you would like to learn more about this model of creative style or the KAI®, you can read Dr. Kirton’s book (Adaption-Innovation in the Context of Diversity and Change, London: Routledge, 2011) or visit the KAI web site (www.kaicentre.com).
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