A study involving 800 New York metropolitan high school students concluded that the Franck Drawing Completion Test can discriminate among high levels of creativity. (WY)

An experiment was conducted to determine if gender differences among preschool children would be found on measures of creative potential. Subjects were 58 English-speaking children, 31 boys and 27 girls, with a mean age of 57.6 months, who attended the Child Development Laboratory School at Oklahoma State University. Subjects were tested…

The effects of play-like, verbal-feedback, and nonverbal-feedback testing conditions on three creative ability measures and the reliabilities of those measures were studied using 175 lower-class preschool children. The creativity measures were found to be largely unaffected by variations in testing conditions; but at the same time, different forms…

This study which involved 60 kindergarten and 69 second grade students sought to identify a significant relationship between internal control perception and creativity. Internal control refers to the perception of positive and/or negative events as being a consequence of one's own actions and thereby under personal control. The Bialer (1961) locus…

The relationship between two personality characteristics, creativity and risk-taking, was investigated in fifth grade students, ages 9-11 years (N equals 291). Creativity was explored by examing the factors of ideational fluency, spontaneous flexibility, originality, and elaboration. Risk-taking, studied in a classroom testing situation, was…

Measures of creativity, openness to experience, and sensation seeking were intercorrelated among female (N=51) and male (N=49) college students. Male creativity correlated most strongly with openness to theoretical and aesthetic experiences and creative thoughts. For females, creativity, openness to inner experiences, and sensation seeking were…

This study shows a demonstrable relationship between children's personality traits and the characteristics of their creations and use of materials. (NH)

THE EXAMINATION WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE IF A CHILD'S ABILITY TO CREATE (COGNITIVE ORIGINALITY) IS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH HIS GENERAL LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE. ONCE THIS PROVED TO BE THE CASE THE INVESTIGATORS THEN PURSUED THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES THAT DISTINGUISH INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON THE CREATIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE…

The California Psychological Inventory (CP I) was used to discriminate between 60 male and 60 female creative artists who were further identified as established or not established in their field. Creative females resembled their male counterparts more than did males and females in general. Discrimination between established and less established…

This study assessed development of sex differences in creativity of preschool and early elementary school children. Preschool, first-, and third-grade students (n=188) were assessed for creativity in terms of ideational fluency. Sex differences were not found in preschool, but by third grade boys scored significantly higher than girls on both…

Relations were examined among the CPI Creativity Scale (CPI-CT), the MBTI Creativity Index (MBTI-CI), and the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI; a style measure of behavioral preference) for samples of 431 to 12,115 managers. KAI scores were related to CPI-CT and MBTI-CI creativity levels. (SLD)

Author attempted to measure the creative potential of young women comparing them to young men. (RK)

In two experiments, judges evaluated fictitious protocols that varied in the number and uniqueness of the answers. Criteria for judgments were creativity, intelligence and gender. (Author/DEP)

TO TEST HYPOTHESES RELATED TO THE CREATIVE THINKING OF CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS, TESTS OF CREATIVITY AND OF INTELLIGENCE WERE ADMINISTERED TO 722 FIRST, THIRD, AND FIFTH GRADE CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS. CHILDREN OF EACH SEX IN EACH GRADE WERE TESTED FOR VERBAL INTELLIGENCE (AS MEASURED BY THE…