Intelligence, general knowledge and personality as predictors of creativity
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Participants
A total of 100 (25 male and 75 female) undergraduate psychology students from a UK-based university took part in this study. Ages ranged from 18 to 46 (mean = 19.66, SD = 3.91). All participants possessed excellent English language skills and had a minimum IELTS English language proficiency score of 7.5.
Measures of creativity
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Divergent Thinking Fluency (DT Fluency) was assessed by a variant of Guilford's (1967) Alternate Uses test. Participants had 3 min per item to name as many uses as possible uses for a brick, wooden
Descriptive statistics and correlations
Means, standard deviations and Pearson correlations for all variables in this study are presented in Table 1.
DT Fluency was found to be positively and significantly related to gf and GK partially confirming H1a. Rated DT was demonstrated to be positively and significantly related to gf, partially confirming H1b. Self-reported creative achievements and self-rated creativity were found to be unrelated to gf or GK partially confirming H1c and H1d. Total creativity demonstrated positive and
Discussion
This study sought to systematically examine the relationships between fluid intelligence, general knowledge and personality with four different measures of creativity and a Total creativity score.
When creativity was assessed as DT Fluency, there was strong support that this aspect of creativity is related to fluid intelligence, which is in line with the extant research (Batey et al., 2009, Furnham et al., 2008). It may be contended that this consistent relationship is observed, because of the
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