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. 2022 Jun 10;35(1):17.
doi: 10.1186/s41155-022-00221-3.

Creativity and its relationship with intelligence and reading skills in children: an exploratory study

Roberta Louise Mariano Bezerra  1 , Rauni Jandé Roama Alves  2 , Cíntia Alves Salgado Azoni  3
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Creativity and its relationship with intelligence and reading skills in children: an exploratory study

Roberta Louise Mariano Bezerra et al. Psicol Reflex Crit. .

Abstract

Creativity, intelligence, and reading skills such as phonological awareness and decoding in reading can be critical to academic success, especially during childhood. Thus, this study aimed to characterize creativity, intelligence, phonological awareness, and reading decoding and verify possible relationships between creativity and these skills. The sample consisted of 75 children divided between the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades of municipal public schools in the Brazilian context. The results indicated the gradual evolution of creativity, intelligence, phonological awareness, and reading decoding in children from the 1st to the 3rd year, especially for the performance of the 3rd year. Correlations between creativity with intelligence and reading skills were also evidenced for all three classes, with the 3rd year with stronger correlations, which are promising results for these relationships. The study of creativity is still a recent field for empirical investigations and deserves future investigations for a better understanding of these constructs in this population.

Keywords: Creativity; Decoding; Intelligence; Learning; Phonological awareness.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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