For a sample of 79 fifth grade pupils from a semi-rural farming area in the Southeastern United States intercorrelations among subtest scores and total scores of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and the Welsh Figural Preference Test (WFPT) revealed little if any relationship either between subtests from the TTCT and those from the WFPT or between the two total tests themselves. It would appear that the two scales which were designed to measure constructs related to creativity share little common variance.
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