In all 78 students completed the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (Form S), the 1975 Barron-Welsh Art Scale, and three estimates of their own creativity. Multiple regressions showed openness-to-experience predicted all three self-estimates of creativity but not the actual creativity score.
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