Gender differences in the creativity of Hong Kong school children: Comparison by using the new electronic wallach-kogan creativity tests

Gender differences in the creativity of Hong Kong school children: Comparison by using the new electronic wallach-kogan creativity tests

• Cheung, Ping Chung Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Lau, Sing Hong Kong Baptist University

Creativity Research Journal, 22(2), 194-199, 2010

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

2010

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AJ Sexual Difference, Bisexual Educational Difference, Sexism in Education
• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Divergent Thinking Ability Style Psychology, Educational Psychology, Multidisciplinary

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Gender differences in creativity scores of the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Tests were found for a sample of 2476 4th- to 9th-graders from 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Specifically, girls in the junior high grades excelled boys in verbal flexibility, figural fluency, figural flexibility, figural uniqueness, and figural unusualness. These findings contrasted with previous findings of no gender differences in a norming study of the same instrument carried out eight years before this study. The gender differences were explained in terms of environmental effect and cultural effect.
[Copyright of Creativity Research Journal is the property of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2010.481522]

This research was supported by a Quality Education Fund (QEF) grant to Sing Lau and Ping Chung Cheung, project leader and co-project leader of the research project, respectively

• English

Journal Articles

• 10400419

• 10.1080/10400419.2010.481522

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/856b726b

2010-11-28