CREATIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN: FEATURES OF INTERRELATION

The article deals with the theoretical analysis and empiric research of intercommunication features of creativity and intelligence of primary school children. In numerous researches, executed within the framework of the most various approaches and methodological conceptions, a thesis is grounded and confirmed that the high manifestation of creativity is possible only in the presence of high level of intellectual capabilities. The subsequent mechanism of creativity development does not correlate directly with development of intelligence, but is characterized by growing influence of motivational and personality components. An attempt to analyse the features of intercommunication display of creativity and intelligence of children of primary school age is carried out in our research. A coefficient of correlation between the level of creativity and a quotient of intelligence is significant; it confirms close connection of intelligence with creativity in primary school age; the level of creativity grows with the growth of general level of intelligence and vice versa. The analysis of quotients of intellectual development in sub-groups with low, middle and high creativity revealed linear connection between creativity and intelligence of children of primary school age. Pupils with the high level of intellectual development have middle and high levels of creativity, while not a single tested child with the low level of creativity has above level of intelligence quotient. Analyzing the features of creativity of tested children with the level of intelligence below average is impossible because of their absence. An idea about the threshold effect of quotients of psychometric intelligence in relation to creativity is confirmed in the sense that the children of primary school age with the subthreshold quotient of intelligence level show linear dependence between development of creativity and intelligence.