Integration between creativity and intellectual style

Pages: 377-380
Jagdish Kumar (Post-graduate Teacher, Department of Education, Haryana)
Pradeep Kumar (Department of Psychology, CRS University, Jind, Haryana)

Present was designed to explore the relationship between dimensions of creativity and intellectual styles. For this, Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking With Pictures (Torrance, 1966) and Thinking Styles Inventory (Sternberg & Wagner, 1992) were administered on 250 female students of 11th and 12th grades with age ranging from 16 to 20 years. Four scores of creativity and thirteen of intellectual styles scored following the rules prescribed in respective manuals. Obtained data was analyzed by applying Descriptive Statistics (Mean, SD, SK, KU) and Pearson’s correlation. Descriptive statistics reveal the normalcy of data distribution. Coefficients of correlations depicted that Fluency has positive correlations with legislative, executive, judicial, hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negative with oligarchic, anarchic, local and conservative styles. Flexibility has marked significant positive association with legislative, executive, hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negative with oligarchic, anarchic, local, and conservative styles. Originality has correlated positively with legislative, executive, judicial hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negatively with oligarchic, anarchic, local, and conservative styles. Elaboration has marked positive association with legislative, executive, judicial, monarchic, hierarchic, global, internal, external, liberal styles; and negative with oligarchic and anarchic styles. In conclusion, both the measures of creativity and intellectual styles share variance with each other. Review of literature also clearly supports the findings of present study.