Two factors of creativity
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1986
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This research investigated factors in creativity. In Study 1, a battery of eight creativity measures was administered to a random sample of 275 Jamaican middle-class 16-year-olds (73 boys and 202 girls) drawn from the Grade 11 population of Kingston, Jamaica. Study 2, mounted two years later, was a replication involving a comparable sample of 320 subjects (101 boys and 219 girls). Factor analysis of the creativity scores collected in Study 1 indicated the presence of two factors of creativity--a verbal factor and a nonverbal factor. Similar confirming findings also emerged in Study 2