title: Creativity in old age: a longitudinal study.
abstract: A creativity test was administered to a selected sample of 52 subjects all 70 years old and repeated in the same group 13 years later. The stimuli used were diffuse ink-blots coded for three components of creativity: fluency, flexibility and originality. The three components were also summed to form a composite creativity score. Repeated analyses showed no age-related changes in the creativity scores obtained at the two testing times. Furthermore, no gender differences nor age and gender inter-actions were found. The results of this longitudinal study indicate that, contrary to earlier findings from cross-sectional studies, creativity does not seem to decline significantly in old age.
authors.affiliation: University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lawenius
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Ruth
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D003405:Creativity; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors