Artistic Creativity and Adaptive Regression in Third Grade Children

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The relationship of artistic creativity to the personality variable of adaptive regression was investigated in 27 creative and 30 uncreative third grade children. Two composite Rorschach measures of adaptive regression did not differentiate the two creative groups. A new measure of adaptive regression composed of Defense Demand and Percentage of responses with primary process as the measures of primary process, and Sum Form Level and number of Populars as the measure of control, did distinguish the creative from the uncreative children. A multiple correlation indicated that the control measures were more effective than primary process measures in differentiating the creative from the uncreative subjects. In brief, the creative children seemed to be “adapting” more than “regressing.”

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