A Factor Analysis of Creativity in Fraternal and Identical Twins

Abstract

The relationship between intelligence and creativity and their factorial structure have been extensively discussed, with little empirical evidence and less agreement as to the meaning. A study of 117 pairs of like sexed fraternal and identical twins was undertaken, with each twin participating in an extensive battery of creativity tests.A factor analysis indicated three factors for the fraternal twins and two for the identical twins, the results supporting both (a) the notion that the common variance of creativity measures may be accounted for by a general intelligence factor, and (b) the division of creativity into a verbal and a figural domain.

Do Creative People Have More Bizarre Dreams? A Reconsideration

“…The test was chosen for the present study because of its past use as a measure of creativity, and because creativity in interpreting ambiguous drawings was hypothesized to be related to creativity in constructing dreams from ambiguous quasi-visual images. In a study by Domino et al, scores on the OFT were found to correlate .42 and .37 with RAT scores for identical and fraternal twins respectively [21] .…”

“…Evidence has been provided for its validity as a measure of creativity [28,29] , but there are also indications that RAT scores overlap considerably with measures of vocabulary knowledge [21]. .…”

“…First, the instruments used to measure creativity in dream studies have tended to show moderate to strong correlations with measures of verbal intelligence. Specifically, the Remote Associates Test used by Domino [17] was found in one study to correlate .55 to .71 with scores on a vocabulary test [21]. And Intuition scores on the MBTI used by Cann and Donderi [19] have been found to correlate .34 to .40 with scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Verbal Test [20] .…”

Exceptionally Gifted Boys and Their Parents

“…However, it is commonly held that intelligence and creativity are two relatively separate areas of cognitive performance, and that each is a highly multifaceted area (Anastasi & Schaefer, 1971). Statistical analyses of batteries of creativity tests and intelligence tests generally indicate that general intelligence accounts highly for scores on creativity measures and that furthermore, creativity itself can be at least initially divided into two general verbal and figural areas (Butcher, 1968;Domino, Walsh, Rezorikoff, & Honeyman, 1976;Hudson, 1966). For these reasons this project uses several measurements of creativity.…”

Nineteenth-Century Foundations of Creativity Research

“…Modern views of the biology of creativity can be found in the work of Domino, Walsh, Reznikoff, and Honeyman (1976), Martindale (in press), and Findlay and Lumsden ( 1988).…”