A 5-yr. follow-up study was conducted of the creativity exhibited by 800 creative and control students previously identified at the high school level. The findings indicate that creative youth continue to report more creative achievements than their peers but only in those specialty fields (arts or sciences) in which they had previously distinguished themselves. The data lend support for the predictive validity of the instrument previously developed with these Ss, the Biographical Inventory Creativity.
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