Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate in Brazilian adults five verbal creative strengths-emotions, fantasy, elaboration, unusual perspective and analogies-which were observed through a new scoring system for the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) verbal form. Men and women in drama, journalism and psychology were compared on the expression of these creative strengths. Results indicated significant associations among four verbal strengths (emotions, fantasy, elaboration, unusual perspective), and the subjects' creative achievements in the verbal area as well as in different areas. The three professional groups differed in their expression of emotions, fantasy, unusual perspective, verbal creativity index, total creative achievements and in their verbal creative achievements. Sex difference was only observed on the creative strength fantasy. The intercorrelations observed among the subtests indicate that the new scoring method leads to an appropriate psychometric instrument.
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