Open AccessMEASURING ARTISTIC CREATIVITY AND FLEXIBILITY 1
Author(s) -
Klein Stephen,
Skager Rodney,
Erlebacher Walter
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1966.tb00361.x
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , creativity , psychology , quality (philosophy) , mode (computer interface) , measure (data warehouse) , mathematics education , social psychology , computer science , mathematics , human–computer interaction , statistics , epistemology , philosophy , database
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between flexibility and artistic ability. To achieve this end, students (N = 92) at a school of design were asked to draw the same thing twice, once using one mode of organization and again using an opposite mode. The rated dissimilarity between each S 's drawings provided a behavioral measure of flexibility. The S s also took three tests that supposedly measured various facets of flexibility. Indices of artistic ability included grades in fine arts courses and the rated quality of the S s' drawings in both modes and on a drawing problem assigned earlier in the semester. The results indicated that only the behavioral measure of flexibility was positively related to indices of artistic ability. The implications of these findings are discussed.