Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as Predictors of Personal and Public Achievement: A Fifty-Year Follow-Up

Runco, Mark A.; Millar, Garnet W.; Acar, Selçuk; Cramond, Bonnie

doi:10.1080/10400419.2010.523393

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“…drawing a picture or writing a piece of music) representing personal achievements, whereas creative achievement usually refers to publically acknowledged achievements (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009;Runco et al, 2010). Although the extent of engagement in creative activities depends upon openness to experiences and creative potential (i.e.…”

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“…Further studies dealing with Torrance's data reported that creative potential and intelligence were significant predictors of creative achievement in a 40-year follow-up (Cramond et al, 2005). In a 50-year follow-up, Runco et al (2010) found that creative potential was associated with personal achievements (which can be considered everyday creative activities), whereas publicly acknowledged creative achievement was related to an interaction between intelligence and creative potential. Wai et al (2005) found Scholastic Aptitude Test scores within a gifted group of 13-year-olds to predict creative achievement 20 years later.…”

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The road to creative achievement: A latent variable model of ability and personality predictors

Jauk

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Neubauer

2014

Personality and Individual Differences

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This study investigated the significance of different well-established psychometric indicators of creativity for real-life creative outcomes. Specifically, we tested the effects of creative potential, intelligence, and openness to experiences on everyday creative activities and actual creative achievement. Using a heterogeneous sample of 297 adults, we performed latent multiple regression analyses by means of structural equation modelling. We found openness to experiences and two independent indicators of creative potential, ideational originality and ideational fluency, to predict everyday creative activities. Creative activities, in turn, predicted actual creative achievement. Intelligence was found to predict creative achievement, but not creative activities. Moreover, intelligence moderated the effect of creative activities on creative achievement, suggesting that intelligence may play an important role in transforming creative activities into publically acknowledged creative achievements. This study supports the view of creativity as a multifaceted construct and provides an integrative model illustrating the potential interplay between its different facets.

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The road to creative achievement: A latent variable model of ability and personality predictors

Jauk

Benedek

Neubauer

2014

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Divergent thinking (DT) is a measure of creative potential, based on the generation of several ideas within one problem space (Torrance, 1974). Children's DT aptitude at 7 years predicts their future creative achievements and careers (Cramond, Matthews-Morgan, Bandalos, & Zuo, 2005;Runco, Millar, Acar, & Cramond, 2010). Thus the capacity to think divergently early in life may be essential for adults to later contribute important, influential ideas to society (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009).…”

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“…Given that children's DT at 7 years predicts creative outputs in later life (Cramond et al, 2005;Runco et al, 2010), influencing DT while children's neuro-development is still very plastic (Joseph, 1999) may have the opportunity to lead to greater future creative gains.…”

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Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

Berg¹,

Hoicka²

2014

Developmental Psychology

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Divergent thinking shows the ability to search for new ideas, which is an important factor contributing to innovation and problem solving. Current divergent thinking tests allow researchers to study children’s divergent thinking from the age of 3 years on. This article presents the first measure of divergent thinking that can be used with children as young as 2 years. The Unusual Box test is a nonverbal and nonimitative test in which children play individually with a novel toy and novel objects. Divergent thinking is scored as the number of different actions performed. Study 1 shows that the Unusual Box test is a valid measure of divergent thinking as it correlates with standard measures of divergent thinking in 3- and 4-year-olds. Study 2 indicates that the test can be used with 2-year-olds, as it shows high test–retest reliability, demonstrating that 2-year-olds can think divergently. Across both studies, individual differences and age-related changes were found, indicating that some children are better at divergent thinking than others and that children’s divergent thinking increases with age. This test will allow researchers to gain insight into the early emergence of divergent thinking.

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“…Bu hipoteze göre, bireyin yaratıcı performans sergileyebilmesi için en az orta düzey bir zekaya sahip olması gerektiği varsayılır ve 120 IQ puanı altında zeka ve yaratıcılık arasındaki ilişkinin 120 IQ puanı üstünde bireylere göre daha yüksek olarak ortaya çıkması beklenmektedir (Kim, Cramond ve VanTassel-Baska, 2010;Runco, 2007). Bir grup araştırmada hipotezi destekleyen (Cho, Nijenhuis, VanVianen, Kim ve Lee, 2010;Fuchs-Beauchamp, Karnes ve Johnson, 1993;Şahin, 2014), bir kısmında ise tam tersi bulgular ortaya çıkmıştır (Kim, 2005;Runco ve Albert, 1986;Runco, Millar, Acar ve Cramond, 2010;Preckel, Holling ve Wiese, 2006;Sligh, Conners ve Roskos-Ewoldsen, 2005).…”

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The Predictive Level of Emotional Intelligence for the Domain-specific Creativity: A Study on Gifted Students

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Özer

Deniz

2016

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Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as Predictors of Personal and Public Achievement: A Fifty-Year Follow-Up

Cited by 331 publications

References 27 publications

The road to creative achievement: A latent variable model of ability and personality predictors

The road to creative achievement: A latent variable model of ability and personality predictors

Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

The Predictive Level of Emotional Intelligence for the Domain-specific Creativity: A Study on Gifted Students

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