A Study into the Effect of Competition on Creativity

The present investigation was designed to study the effect of competition on ideational fluency and flexibility. A sample of 40 students - 20 in Experimental and 20 in the Control Group matched for intelligence, age, class and creativity was used. Both the Groups were administered Test of Imagination (Product Improvement and Unusual Uses) and the results showed that the Experimental Group in this and under the conditions of this study differed significantly In the mean number of ideas and flexibility of ideas. The ratio between the means of the two groups for Fluency and Flexibility was 4.30 and 5.43 respectively, significant at .01 level of confidence. The replication of this study was also suggested on large and different samples.