Tets de pensamiento creativo de Torrance (TTCT)elementos para la validez de constructo en adolescentes portugueses

  1. Oliveira, Ema
  2. Almeida, Leandro S.
  3. Ferrándiz García, Carmen
  4. Ferrando Prieto, Mercedes
  5. Sainz, Marta
  6. Prieto Sánchez, María Dolores
Revista:
Psicothema

ISSN: 0214-9915

Año de publicación: 2009

Volumen: 21

Número: 4

Páginas: 562-567

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

El objetivo es estudiar la naturaleza unidimensional o multidimensional de la creatividad cuando se evalúa a través de tareas de pensamiento divergente como se propone en la batería de Torrance (Torrance Thinking Creative Test, TTCT). En esta batería se utilizan diferentes subtests de contenido verbal y figurativo orientadas a estimar el nivel de creatividad según las dimensiones o funciones cognitivas de fluidez, flexibilidad, originalidad y elaboración de las ideas de los individuos. La muestra ha sido de 595 alumnos portugueses de 5º y 6º curso. Los resultados del análisis factorial confirmatorio permiten verificar que el modelo unidimensional (un factor general de creatividad) o el modelo de factores en función de las dimensiones cognitivas de la creatividad según el contenido de las tareas no son los más ajustados. El modelo más ajustado pone de relieve una estructura factorial jerárquica, donde en el primer nivel se sitúan los factores por cada uno de los subtests aplicados, en un segundo nivel se incluye el contenido verbal o figurativo. En este sentido, se apunta la dificultad de verificar la validez estructural de los TTCT y la necesidad de realizar más estudios en orden a obtener, en la práctica, puntuaciones individuales de la creatividad.

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