Badini, I;
Toivainen, T;
Oliver, BR;
Kovas, Y;
(2018)
Early Predictors Of Creative Writing At Age 9.
In:
The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences.
(pp. pp. 63-74).
Future Academy: London, UK.
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Abstract
The present study investigated the extent to which creative expressiveness in writing at age 9 could be predicted by early human figure drawing ability and general cognitive ability, measured at age 4. Participants (N=277) were members of the Twins Early Development Study, for whom measures of human figure drawing and general cognitive ability were available at age 4 and a measure of creative writing was available at age 9. Creativity was measured with the Consensual Assessment Technique, which is a commonly used technique to estimate creativity of a product. Each story, based on three pictures shown to children, was coded on 10 dimensions by five independent judges. Creative Expressiveness score was created as a composite measure of dimensions that correlated highly with creativity dimension. Human figure drawing ability, measured by The Draw-A-Child test at 4, was found to be a weak but significant predictor of Creative Expressiveness at age 9 (r =.17). General cognitive ability at 4 did not predict Creative Expressiveness in writing at 9. It is concluded that examining individual differences in human figure drawing ability may provide a promising direction for exploring the early antecedents of creativity throughout childhood.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Early Predictors Of Creative Writing At Age 9 |
Event: | ICPE 2018: International Conference on Psychology and Education |
Dates: | 25 June 2018 - 26 June 2018 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.15405/epsbs.2018.11.02.8 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.11.02.8 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Creativity, Writing, Drawing, Children |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10104226 |
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