Creativity,
Intelligence and Temperament: A Study of Interrelationship
Q. Hasan & S.R. Khan |
The
study was carried out to explore the relationship among creativity,
intelligence and temperament. A verbal battery of creativity tests,
Raven's Progressive Matrices and `Thorndike Dimensions of Temperament'
were administered on 1Q4 male Ss {age range 12--16 years) drawn from
7th and 8th grade classes. Besides enabling to identify the temperamental
correlates of the three types of creativity scores, namely, fluency,
flexibility and originality, the findings of the present study have
implications for: (1) the nature of relationship between creativity
and intelligence, and (2) for the controversy regarding uni- versus
multi-dimensionality of creativity. It was found that the intercorrelations
among the three creativity scores are relatively higher than the
correlation of any one of them with intelligence. In general, the
three creativity scores were not found to be associated with the
same temperamental dimension. Factor analysis of the matrix of intercorrelations
among the variables yielded five factors. One of the factors was
identified as Introversion-Extraversion. The fifth factor was found
to run through the three creativity scores.
|