Study (Getzels and Jackson 1962) shows that personality measures suggested that the creative children showed more freedom, originality, humor, violence and playfulness than the high IQ children. Their work suggests that in many cases children who are highly creative have IQs considerably below the average for their peers.
Perhaps, the high-IQ children were more success-oriented and received more approval from teachers. Compared with their less creative peers, creative children also engage in more fantasy or pretend play in interaction with other children.
The concepts of imagination, originality, giftedness and curiosity have been studied and in many cases have been equated with creativity. They are spontaneous, uninhibited and often mindful.
Possibly parents contributes to such creative tendencies, for parents of creative children and adolescents tend to accept their children as they are and granted them a good deal of freedom to explore new possibilities on their own.
Creativity in childhood
