Teachers’ and Children’s Perceptions of Creativity In High- and Low-Anxious Children

Creativity and Sex Differences*

“…Where creativity refers to task performance on dimensions variously labelled "divergent thinking," "ideational fluency," "associative pro· ductivity," "originality," "uniqueness," "spontaneous flexibility," or other related constructs, consistent sex differences have not been found. True, some investigations report male superiority (e.g., Hudson, 1968; Torrance' 1962), and others female superiority (e.g., GUitford, 1967; Wallach-& Wing, 1969), but the majority of studies have failed to uncover a systematic superiority of one sex over the other (e.g., Feldhusen & Denny, 1965;Klausmeier & Wiersma, 1965;Torrance, 1965;Wallach & Kogan, 1965). In sum, the foregoing empirical outcomes strongly suggest that neither sex is at an advantage in regard to 'creativity It This is a revised version of a paper presented at a Symposium on Sex Differences in Play, imagination and Creativity: Current Research and Implications, Eastern Psychological Assoc. Meetings: Boston, Mass., April, 1972. potential."…”

Creativity and Mental Health

“…On the other hand, there is a body of knowledge (Flescher, 1963;Jackson, undated) that fails to substantiate any relationship between anxiety and creativity. Feldhusen and Denny (1965) found that creative children were no different relative to anxiety than noncreatives.…”