Abstract

NAKANO, Tatiana de Cássia  and  BRITO, Maíra Esteves. Creativity assessment. Temas psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.1, pp. 01-15. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2013.1-01.

With the aim of enrich the discussion about the relationship between creativity and intelligence, a sample of 135 children (mean 10.3 years, SD = 1.05), students from fourth to sixth year of elementary school, answered the battery of reasoning tests Children and the Child Figural Creativity Test. Two different tests were conducted using different criteria of dividing the participants based on the control of intelligence level (high, medium and low intelligence). When this division was based in the mean and standard deviation (1 SD below-between-1SD and 1SD + and above +1SD), the results of analysis of variance showed the interaction between gender and group like marginally significant in factor 2 (emotional), however, when a new division is done from the percentile (below the P25, P75 and above the average), the variable group is to influence significantly the result in factor 1 (Enrichment of Ideas). The study also showed low correlation between the constructs (r = .22).

Keywords : Drawing; reasoning; children.

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