The Kaufman domains of creativity scale: Validation in a Spanish university context.

Creativity is understood to be a set of elements that define a creative person, and the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale is internationally regarded as being of scientific value for measuring it. This article verifies the applicability of this instrument in a Spanish university context, after having its 50 elements professionally translated into Spanish and conducting an empirical study that establishes its guarantees of reliability and validity in this scenario. Following analytical exploration of this tool's constituent factors, the original five domains (everyday, performance, academic, mechanical/scientific, and artistic) are restructured into eight (everyday, performance, mechanical/scientific, academic, artistic expression, artistic understanding, emotional, and mathematical). As in other international settings, students were found to give statistical validity to basic social skills, while artistic competences, scientific design strategies, and intellectual capacities are constants within the construct of creativity regardless of the population group being studied. Nonetheless, the distinguishing features are in the artistic domain, which has undergone division, giving prominence to artistic expression and understanding of the arts. Also, in the extraction of an emotional component that goes beyond the everyday, and in a purely mathematical domain disaggregated from the mechanical/scientific domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]