Relationship between Familial Style and Creative Potential of Preschool Children

Abstract

The relationship between familial style and creative potential in preschool children was explored with a sample of 32 children (17 girls, 15 boys) and their parents. The children's ages ranged from 36 to 61 months (M = 51). The children were given the Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure as an assessment of creative potential. Parents completed FACES III, a measure of family interaction patterns. Analysis yielded a positive though nonsignificant r of .32 between FACES adaptability and total fluency of the stimulus fluency measure and a significant negative r of −.34 (p<.05) for FACES cohesion and total fluency of children. Regression analyses indicated that, when cohesion and adaptability are used together, 15% of the variance can be accounted for.

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