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Descriptive analysis shows that students (1) perceive a positive study-research climate that encourages creative processes (independence, motivation, intellectual challenges),(2) judge that researchers have numerous opportunities for creative work in the various phases of research and (3) evaluate themselves as highly creative individuals in everyday life. Students perceive themselves as being at their most creative in the definition of the research problem, which they mainly identify with the use of personal strategies (work experience) and take various lengths of time to form, typically up to one year. The most difficult problem in this regard is represented by giving meaning to the problem (breadth, depth, specificity, application) . Amongst the perceived encouragement with which mentors motivate students for creative research the most frequent is less directive general guidance in study and research. On the basis of the presented findings, guidelines are suggested for the more effective encouragement of creative research in postgraduate students.  \nKey words: Postgraduate study, Research, Research problem, Scientific creativity.  \n1 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education [mojca.jurisevic@pef.uni-lj.si](mojca.jurisevic@pef.uni-lj.si)  \nThrough phylogeny, creativity is the central motor of human development in various areas, from the solving of everyday life problems through the arts and economics to science, which with its achievements contributes to sustainable development-economic, social and environmental (Beghetto and Kaufman, 2007; Collins, 2007; Runco, 2004; Sawyer, 2006; Stehr, 1994; Sternberg and Lubard, 1999; Weisberg, 1993) . In his resounding work Antropologija ustvarjalnosti (The Anthropology of Creativity), Makarovič (2003) asserts that creativity is “…the highest human manifestation, the very highest expression of humanity, which as such presupposes the entirety of human reality.”(p. 47) . Today, we generally understand creativity as a psychological phenomenal that manifests itself in the form of the production of ideas-new and unusual ideas, but ideas that are effective and useful for particular purposes (Amabile, 1996; Ochse, 1990; Sternberg, 2003), with regard to which the ethical dimension of creative ideas is increasingly taken into account (Cropley, 2009) . Defined in this way, creativity is closely linked with the concept of divergent thinking, as initially developed in the area of researching creativity by Guilford (1950) . Divergent thinking is defined as the basis for creativity and is determined by four attributes: (1) fluency-the ability to quickly produce a large number of ideas or solutions to a particular problem,(2) flexibility-the ability to produce various ideas or to simultaneously take into account various aspects in problem solving,(3) originality-the ability to produce new and unusual (rare) ideas and (4) elaboration-the ability to reflect deeply on ideas and to work ideas out in detail. Although in his work Guilford does not explicitly emphasise the applicative value of ideas, this value is particularly important. Not all that is new is creative; we can only consider creativity in cases where ideas fulfil exterior criteria of individual and social wellbeing (Cropley, 2009; Pečjak, 1987) . Furnham and Bachtiar (2008) emphasise that, due to its multi-component nature and complexity, creativity is difficult to define precisely, as well as being difficult to measure. On the basis of more than 60 definitions of creativity they determine that the most important components for defining creativity are cognitive ability, perso","cbCaihRLp9PAzp3K","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihRLp9PAzp3K","pdf",544845,22,"English","# Research purpose and method\n## Participants and questionnaire\n# Findings on creativity perceptions\n## Research climate and opportunities\n## Self-perception of creativity\n## Creativity in defining the research problem\n# Mentoring encouragement and recommendations\n## Guidance style and implications","[{\"question\":\"What research purpose does the questionnaire address?\",\"answer\":\"It determines how postgraduate students perceive opportunities for creative research in general and how they perceive creativity while preparing their own research work.\"},{\"question\":\"How do students perceive the research climate and creative processes?\",\"answer\":\"Students perceive a positive study-research climate that encourages creative processes, such as independence, motivation, and intellectual challenges.\"},{\"question\":\"When do students feel they are most creative, and what is the hardest part?\",\"answer\":\"They report being most creative when defining the research problem; the most difficult aspect is giving meaning to the problem in terms of breadth, depth, specificity, and application.\"}]","Postgraduate Students’ Perception of Creativity in the Research Process | PDF",1792086132,55]