JACIS (Creative Imagination Scaleの日本語版) の結果に基づく日本人学生の想像的活動の特徴

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A Creative Imagination Scale revised in Japanese (JACIS) was developed to measure various aspects of Japanese creative activity. Administered to 136 college freshmen, the scale was found to have adequate reliability and validity. Results indicated that, compared to American or Australian students, Japanese students tended to be less active, relaxed and comfortable in their imaginative activity. High, medium and low scoring groups (N=15 each) were formed on the basis of JACIS results and the JARAT (RAT revised in Japanese) and CIT (Fusion Test of Composite Images) tests were then administered to the members of these groups. Although the correlation coefficients between two tests of three each did not achieve statistical significance, a factor analysis suggested that Japanese students might not be as efficient as their American and Australian counterparts in controlling images autonomously.