Relationship between Creativity and Intelligence among Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Abstract

Background: Creativity is the means to create new ideas and product with existing but unrelated materials or situation. Creativity is the combination of thinking and producing. Creativity will bloom where intelligence is there as it is ever expanding and not bound by rules. Objective: To find out the relationship between creativity and intelligence among individuals with intellectual disability. Sample: Individuals with intellectual disability (N=50) IQ ranging from 50-69 with age group 10-20 years studying at GRIID, Chandigarh, India were selected as sample. A sampling frame was prepared and 50 subjects were selected randomly from the sampling frame. Design: Descriptive correlation research method was used. Tool: A New Test of Creativity (NTC) developed by Pal (1991) published by National Psychological Corporation-Agra, India was used to assess creativity of individual with intellectual disability. Results: The results of the study reveal significant correlation between intelligence and creativity (r=252, p<.05) among individuals with intellectual disability. However, IQ was not corelated with fluency (r=.189, p>.05, NS), and originality (r=.075, p>.05, NS) domain of creativity except flexibility (r=.282 p<.05). No significant difference in IQ (t=1.210, p>.05, NS) and creativity (t=.620, p>.05, NS) among individuals with intellectual disability with respect to gender. Also, no significant difference in IQ (F=.551, p>.05, NS) and creativity (F=.952, p>.05, NS) among individuals with intellectual disability with respect to age except for originality (F=2.883, p<.05) one of the domains of creativity. Conclusion: The result indicated that there is significant correlation between creativity and intelligence among individuals with Intellectual disability. However, no significance difference was found in creativity and intelligence among individuals with Intellectual disability with regard to gender and age. It has been also found that as age increases the level of creativity also increases.