44 students were selected from 1,000 metropolitan sixth-graders as “highly creative” on the basis of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and were asked to complete a diary covering one week of their school and leisure time activities. Some anticipated differences between various categories of creative children emerged, but the differences were explicable at a prima facie level. In their leisure activities the creative sample did not appear to differ at all in terms of creative interest or output from their less gifted peers.
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