Ridley D R
Percept Mot Skills. 1977 Oct;45(2):399-408. doi: 10.2466/pms.1977.45.2.399.
The construct validity of the Barron-Welsh Art Scale as a measure of creativity was questioned. It was hypothesized that figure preferences of creative subjects are more strongly determined by stimulus communicability than stimulus complexity. In a first study a significant negative relationship between operational measures of communicability and complexity of Barron-Welsh drawing was found. A second study of 24 undergraduate subjects showed communicability to be significantly related to peer ratings of creativity whereas complexity was not. A third study of 60 high school subjects showed that a derived score, reflecting the relative preference for drawings of low communicability and low complexity over those of high communicability and high complexity, was significantly related to staff's ratings of creativity. These results were in direct opposition to an interpretation involving complexity in previous research on the Barron-Welsh Art Scale. An alternative interpretation was discussed.
巴伦-威尔士艺术量表作为创造力衡量工具的结构效度受到了质疑。研究假设，有创造力的受试者对图形的偏好更多地由刺激的可传达性而非刺激的复杂性所决定。在第一项研究中，发现了巴伦-威尔士绘画的可传达性操作指标与复杂性之间存在显著的负相关关系。第二项针对24名本科受试者的研究表明，可传达性与创造力的同伴评分显著相关，而复杂性则不然。第三项针对60名高中受试者的研究表明，一个衍生分数，即反映对低可传达性和低复杂性绘画相对于高可传达性和高复杂性绘画的相对偏好，与教师对创造力的评分显著相关。这些结果与先前关于巴伦-威尔士艺术量表的研究中涉及复杂性的解释直接相反。文中讨论了另一种解释。
