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Relationships among creativity, intelligence, and achievement measures in upward bound students
Author(s) -
Aliotti Nicholas C.,
Britt Morkis F.,
Raskins Guy P.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(197510)12:4<423::aid-pits2310120409>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - psychology , torrance tests of creative thinking , creativity , aptitude , test (biology) , intelligence quotient , fluency , developmental psychology , varimax rotation , disadvantaged , raven's progressive matrices , academic achievement , creative thinking , cognition , psychometrics , social psychology , mathematics education , paleontology , cronbach's alpha , neuroscience , political science , law , biology
Abstract Ninety‐four disadvantaged, Upward Bound students were administered a test battery of the Otis Quick‐Scoring Mental Ability Test, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test , Guilford's tests of Expressional Fluency, Alternate Uses, and Consequences; and the Figural Form of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Significant sex differences favoring males were obtained for Otis I J(P < −025), PSAT‐Verbal (p <.01), and PSAT‐Quantitative (p <.001). Females excelled males on the figural elaboration score from the TTCT (p <.001). White disadvantaged students scored significantly higher than their Indian counterparts on Otis IQ (p <.05) and higher than their black counterparts on the PSAT‐Quantitative (p <.01). White students also scored significantly higher than their Indian counterparts on Guilford‐Consequences — Obvious (p <.05). A varimax rotation of the correlation matrix resulted in a two‐factor solution defined by intelligence‐achievement scores and figural creativity. Guilford creativity tests were more closely related to the intelligence‐achievement factor, while the Torrance figural creativity test remained a distinct factor. The results are discussed in relation to previous studies of the creativity‐intelligence distinction.