Creativity and Technical Innovation Spatial Ability's Unique Role
Creativity and Technical Innovation Spatial Ability's Unique Role
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797613478615
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发表时间：
2013-09-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Steiger, James H.
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作者：
Kell, Harrison J.;Lubinski, David;Steiger, James H.
20 世纪 70 年代末，对 563 名智力天才的 13 岁青少年（被 SAT 认定为能力前 0.5% 的人）进行了空间能力评估。 30 多年后，本研究评估了空间能力是否能够提供增量有效性（超出 SAT 的数学和语言推理子测试），以差异化预测这些人中哪些人拥有专利和三类参考出版物。两步判别函数分析显示，SAT 子测试共同解释了这些结果之间方差的 10.8% (p < .01)；当添加空间能力时，额外增加了 7.6%，具有统计显着性增加 (p < .01)。研究结果表明，空间能力在创造力的发展中具有独特的作用，超出了传统上在教育选择、咨询和工业组织心理学中衡量的能力所发挥的作用。空间能力在构建许多重要的心理现象中发挥着关键而独特的作用，应该在应用和基础心理科学中进行更广泛的研究。
In the late 1970s, 563 intellectually talented 13-year-olds (identified by the SAT as in the top 0.5% of ability) were assessed on spatial ability. More than 30 years later, the present study evaluated whether spatial ability provided incremental validity (beyond the SAT's mathematical and verbal reasoning subtests) for differentially predicting which of these individuals had patents and three classes of refereed publications. A two-step discriminant-function analysis revealed that the SAT subtests jointly accounted for 10.8% of the variance among these outcomes (p < .01); when spatial ability was added, an additional 7.6% was accounted for-a statistically significant increase (p < .01). The findings indicate that spatial ability has a unique role in the development of creativity, beyond the roles played by the abilities traditionally measured in educational selection, counseling, and industrial-organizational psychology. Spatial ability plays a key and unique role in structuring many important psychological phenomena and should be examined more broadly across the applied and basic psychological sciences.