title: Relationship between creativity, repression, and anxiety in first graders.
abstract: The present study dealt with the extent to which creativity may be identified in 71 first graders and raised the question of whether and how creativity is related to anxiety and repression at this young age. Furthermore, correlation of 0.62 was obtained between creativity and decrease in repression. The various subtests and the four dimensions of creativity were separately analyzed in relation to anxiety and repression, and the results were discussed. No relation was found between intelligence and the dynamic variables of anxiety and repression.
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012094:Repression, Psychology