Valutazione delle abilità creative: confronto fra un campione italiano di anziani sani e il campione normativo americano

Titolo Rivista RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Autori/Curatori Maura Crepaldi, Giulia Fusi, Maria Luisa Rusconi
Anno di pubblicazione 2020 Fascicolo 2020/2 Lingua Italiano
Numero pagine 18 P. 673-690 Dimensione file 242 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIP2020-002010
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Negli ultimi anni, osservazioni provenienti da studi in crescente aumento, mostrano quanto la creatività, nella forma di pensiero divergente e convergente, possa favorire il benessere psicologico e cognitivo grazie alle abilità di trovare strategie diverse di problem solving, di sviluppare al meglio le proprie potenzialità e di permettere ai soggetti più fragili, in particolare gli anziani, di trovare un sostegno per il superamento di difficoltà. È importante, quindi, avere a disposizione strumenti validi e condivisibili di valutazione delle abilità creative in ottica pre-ventiva, di promozione e di potenziamento. In questo articolo vengono presenta-ti i dati raccolti su un campione italiano di soggetti anziani sani tramite l’utilizzo del test di creatività ATTA (Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults). Questo test in particolare è stato utilizzato in diversi studi descritti in letteratura ma è tarato solamente sulla popolazione americana. Risulta quindi utile fornire i dati di un campione di riferimento per ricerche future, presentando i dati preliminari ottenuti dalla somministrazione del test a adulti-anziani italiani, al fine di poter con-frontare questi con i dati normativi americani.;

Keywords:Creatività, ATTA, TTCT, pensiero divergente, pensiero convergente, adulti, anziani.

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Maura Crepaldi, Giulia Fusi, Maria Luisa Rusconi, Valutazione delle abilità creative: confronto fra un campione italiano di anziani sani e il campione normativo americano in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA " 2/2020, pp 673-690, DOI: 10.3280/RIP2020-002010