The perception of lack of national research focused on investigating the relationship between creativity and temperament developed with children and adolescents motivated the present study, conducted among 142 students from 6th to 9th grade of elementary school (84 female and 58 male), aged between 11 and 14 years (M=12.8 years; SD=1.10). Two instruments were used: Test of Figural Creativity for Children and Student Styles Questionnaire. The results indicated that the temperamental dimensions extraversion and intuition were the most related to performance on creativity (showing significant correlations with the factors Enrichment of Ideas, Creative Preparation and total creativity). Significant influence of gender was found in relation to rational and emotional dimensions of temperament, while the grade variable and its interaction with gender was found in Cognitive factor of creativity.
Gender; School grade; Student Style Questionnaire
