Divergent Thinking Abilities as a Function of Daydreaming Frequency

Abstract

One hundred seventy-four subjects were tested to determine the relationship between daydreaming frequency and different measures of creativity. Daydreaming frequency was determined by self-report method and creativity was measured by a figural form of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. A Goodenough-Harris test was used to control for the effect of IQ. The frequent daydreaming group was found to be significantly less fluent than the general population. Creativity scores tabulated on a per-response basis demonstrated total figural creativity, originality, and elaboration positively related and title originality negatively related to daydreaming frequency. These results suggest that frequent daydreamers are slow in response production, weak in verbal creativity, but gifted in visual creative abilities.