De Caroli Maria Elvira, Sagone Elisabetta
Faculty of Educational Science, University of Catania, Italy.
Psychol Rep. 2009 Dec;105(3 Pt 1):791-803. doi: 10.2466/PR0.105.3.791-803.
This study examined the relations of creative thinking with Big Five factors of personality and the differences by sex and age on creativity. A sample of Italian schoolchildren (56 boys, 56 girls), between 8 to 10 years of age, completed the Test of Creative Thinking and the Big Five Questionnaire for Children. Analysis of results indicated that older children obtained significantly higher scores than the younger ones on Elaboration and Production of titles. Girls obtained significantly higher scores than boys on Originality and Elaboration. The results suggested a modest and negative relation of Flexibility with Conscientiousness and Production of titles with Emotional instability. These findings support the need to explore the connection between creativity and personality with developmental age by means of multiple tasks for evaluating creative thinking.
本研究考察了创造性思维与人格五因素的关系，以及性别和年龄在创造力方面的差异。选取了56名男孩和56名女孩，年龄在8至10岁之间的意大利学童作为样本，他们完成了创造性思维测试和儿童五因素问卷。结果分析表明，年龄较大的儿童在细节 elaboration 和标题创作 Production of titles 方面的得分显著高于年龄较小的儿童。女孩在独创性 Originality 和细节 elaboration 方面的得分显著高于男孩。结果表明，灵活性 Flexibility 与尽责性 Conscientiousness 之间存在适度的负相关，标题创作 Production of titles 与情绪不稳定性 Emotional instability 之间存在负相关。这些发现支持了通过多种评估创造性思维的任务来探索创造力与人格以及发展年龄之间联系的必要性。
