Creativity Divergent thinking Personality Fluid intelligence Crystallized intelligence

This study sought to examine the contribution of fluid intelligence, general knowledge and Big Five personality traits in predicting four indices of creativity: Divergent Thinking (DT) fluency, Rated DT, Creative Achievement and Self-Rated creativity and a combined Total Creativity variable. When creativity was assessed by DT test, the consistent predictor was fluid intelligence. When creativity was assessed in terms of achievement or self-rating, personality variables were consistently predictive. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Creativity is an important individual difference construct, yet has received little academic attention in comparison to allied areas like intelligence. In part, the scarcity of studies may be linked to the difficulties in defining and measuring the creativity dependent variable (Batey, & Furnham, 2006). Creativity may be defined in relation to the concepts of novelty and utility (Mumford, 2003; Plucker, Beghetto, & Dow, 2004). One of the most popular methods of examining creativity utilises the multi-trait multi-method approac