Constructing Serious Creativity Scale for Athletes

The study problem is the lack of an Iraqi sport scale tool in the field of sport to measure serious creativity. It aims build a scale model of serious creativity of the applicants to individual and team sports in Iraq. Descriptive method with survey was used to build the scale. The study participants were a random sample of 425 sport people using De Bono’s model to identify the concept, dimensions and phrases of serious creativity. The final form of the scale after meeting the conditions of authenticity, consistency and capacity to distinguish 52 items. The items are divided into 6 dimensions which are challenge, mental motivation, reason, liberation, fluency, style of thinking and synchronization. The researchers recommend using scale to determine serious creativity and benefit from the results to instruct and train the sport people whose serious creativity is low. The correlations between serious creativity and other variables such as worry, ego, and psychological security etc. might be investigated.