کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
891418 914041 2011 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Gender differences in creative thinking revisited: Findings from analysis of variability
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Gender differences in creative thinking revisited: Findings from analysis of variability
چکیده انگلیسی

This study investigated gender differences in creativity among 985 schoolchildren (499 boys, 486 girls) by analyzing both means and variability. A relatively new creativity test, the Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production (TCT-DP), was employed to gain a more refined understanding of gender differences in creativity using a gestalt approach. Whereas the results of analyses of means generally supported the Gender Similarities Hypothesis, the variability analyses tended to support the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis and the Gender Difference Hypothesis. Analyses of the TCT-DP subscales revealed that both genders have their relative strengths and weaknesses in creative thinking. Whereas girls outperformed boys in thoroughness of thinking, boys outperformed girls in boundary-breaking thinking. Variability analyses further showed that more boys clustered in the two extremes of the composite score. Significantly greater variability was found for males on five criteria of the TCT-DP. The educational implications of such a complex pattern of gender differences are discussed. With a view to searching for an explanation for gender differences, several lines of further research are proposed.


► We studied gender differences in creativity by analyzing means and variability.
► Results of mean analyses generally supported the Gender Similarities Hypothesis.
► Results of variability analyses supported the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Personality and Individual Differences - Volume 51, Issue 7, November 2011, Pages 807–811
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