A battery of 26 verbal and non-verbal tests of flexibility was administered to 78 boys (average age 18 yr.), and the six factors extracted accounted for 53% of the total variance: (1) general flexibility factor, (2) associative flexibility factor, (3) ideational flexibility factor, (4) graphic flexibility factor. The two remaining factors cannot be interpreted. Analysis of the same battery for a population of 107 girls (average age 18 yr.) yielded essentially the same factorial structure.
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