Measurement Invariance of Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Figural Scoresacross Age: A study in Spanish-Speaking Children and Adolescents.

Cuadernos de Neuropsicologia

Viviana Lemos¹  Vanessa Arán Filippetti¹  Gabriela L. Krumm¹  Jael Vargas Rubilar¹  María Aranguren² 

[1] Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi (CIIPME). Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina;Facultad de Psicología y Psicopedagogía. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA).;

关键词: Measurement Invariance;    Age;    Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking;    TTCT-Figuras;    Creativity;   

DOI  :  10.7714/cnps/7.2.202

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

On the basis of a previous study carried out with Spanish-speaking children which indicates that the Creativity construct, operationalized by means of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT)-Figural, consists of two factors –Innovation and Adaptation– (Krumm, Lemos & Arán Filippetti, in press), the objective of the present work was to prove whether this structure is invariant across age. A sample of 652 Spanish-speaking children and adolescents aged 9-17 years of both sexes was tested. It was in turn divided into three age groups: (a) 9-10, (b) 11-13 and (c) 16 -17 years. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) showed that in each group of the sample, the structure of the TTCT is composed of two correlated factors, namely Innovation and Adaptation. In addition, Multigroup CFA demonstrated that the two-factor solution was actually invariant (configural and metric) across age, meaning that children and adolescents equally conceptualize the Creativity construct. Finally, MANOVA showed a significant age effect on every subscale. These data suggest the relevance of considering the age factor when assessing the creative potential through the TTCT-Figural.

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