Validity evidence obtained for Torrance's Creative Motivation Inventory Scale with Torrance's Thinking Creatively With Pictures, Forms A and B as criterion using 118 Ss shows high-creative Ss to have a significantly higher mean than low scorers on fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration on both forms.
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