A Study on the Group Differences of Undergraduates with High-Level Creativity

Abstract

Abstract: The categorisation of high creative groups is an important issue in creativity researches. However, the homogeneity problem between different groups has been neglected in numerous studies, which was examined in the present study. There were 975 students from two universities (moe-administrated university and local university) with different academic ranks were involved in the study. Their creativity power was measured with the Creativity Questions Proficiency Test. Participants were divided into lower and higher creative groups in each college by using the extreme groups approach (EGA). The results showed that higher creative individuals from the moe-administrated university were more creative than the local university in the fluency, flexibility, and originality of creativity. This suggests that high-creation subjects from different pools may have greater heterogeneity and the corresponding experimental results may not have compelling comparability. Our findings suggest that school levels may play a decisive role in inducing such differences between the higher creative groups of undergraduates from different studies. Therefore, researchers should pay attention to the homogeneity of the samples when doing relevant study or discussing the comparability of the previous studies.

Key words: creativity, extreme groups approach, local university, moe-administrated university

摘要： 高创造力群体的界定是创造力研究的重要前提，但迄今极少有研究关注以往研究中高创造力群体间的同质性问题。本研究以创造力问题提出能力测验调查了两所高校（一所地方高校和一所教育部直属高校）的975名大学生的创造力，通过极端组方法（extreme groups approach, EGA）为大学生创造力水平分组，考察不同创造力分组之间的差别。研究发现：地方高校和部属高校的高创造力大学生被试，在创造力的流畅性、变通性和独特性三个维度上，均存在显著差异。本研究结果提示，大学生高创造力组间可能存在质的差别，因此相关研究在外推结果时需要采取谨慎态度；研究者在实验过程中和讨论文献结果的可比性时一定要关注样本的同质性问题。

关键词: 创造力, 极端组方法, 地方高校, 部属高校

CLC Number:

B842

LI Yongjie, LIU Chunhui, JIN Hua. A Study on the Group Differences of Undergraduates with High-Level Creativity[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2020, 18(4): 440-445.

李永杰, 刘春晖, 金花. 高创造力个体的群体差异性研究[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2020, 18(4): 440-445.

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