IDEATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING - A KEY ELEMENT IN CREATIVITY TRAINING-PROGRAMS

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a comple te creativity training program to that of one element of the program, ideational skills training, in increasing creative performance. Partic ipants were 108 undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to o ne of 3 conditions: creativity training, ideational skills training, a nd a control group. Participants completed a pretest and a posttest of divergent thinking, the figural form of the Torrance Tests of Creativ e Thinking (TTCT; Torrance, 1966), as well as a manipulation check que stionnaire. Multivariate analyses of covariance and comparison tests s howed that both the creativity training and the ideational skills trai ning had significant positive effects on overall TTCT scores when comp ared to the control condition. Analyses of covariance revealed that th ese 2 types of training had differential effects on the various TTCT s ubscores. Implications of these results are discussed.