The main purposes of this research were to compare the differences of overexcitabilities (OE's) and creativity between visual art talented (VT) students and regular (RG) students, as well as the correlationship between OE's and creativity. The subjects included 190 VT students and 195 RG students of elementary schools. The major instruments were ”The Me Scale” and ”New Creativity Test”. The data gathered were processed by descriptive statistics, F test and Pearson correlation. The main findings were as follows: 1. Visual Art students were more significant in sensual OE, intellectual OE, imaginational OE and emotional OE, than RG students (p<.05). 2. Visual Art students were significantly higher in ”verbal fluency”, ”verbal flexibility”, ”verbal originality” and ”figural elaboration” than RG students (p<.01). 3. In addition to sensual OE, the correlation between psychomotor, intellectual, imaginational as well as emotional OE's and creativity was positive (p<.05).
The main purposes of this research were to compare the differences of overexcitabilities (OE's) and creativity between visual art talented (VT) students and regular (RG) students, as well as the correlationship between OE's and creativity. The subjects included 190 VT students and 195 RG students of elementary schools. The major instruments were ”The Me Scale” and ”New Creativity Test”. The data gathered were processed by descriptive statistics, F test and Pearson correlation. The main findings were as follows: 1. Visual Art students were more significant in sensual OE, intellectual OE, imaginational OE and emotional OE, than RG students (p<.05). 2. Visual Art students were significantly higher in ”verbal fluency”, ”verbal flexibility”, ”verbal originality” and ”figural elaboration” than RG students (p<.01). 3. In addition to sensual OE, the correlation between psychomotor, intellectual, imaginational as well as emotional OE's and creativity was positive (p<.05).