Verbal and figural creativity in contemporary high-school students

The present study is based on the fact that numerous researches have demonstrated that creative abilities are influenced in an extensive degree by the intellectual factors, which also guide the development of communication skills. Due to the fact that high-school education is mainly based on verbal skills practice and because graphic communication becomes secondary at this age, we assumed that verbal creativity proficiency is higher than figural creativity proficiency in high-school students. Results infirm this hypothesis and provide evidence to substantiate the superioriry of figural creativity over verbal creativity in high-school students. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.