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The purpose of this study was to examine sex differences of young, middle-aged, and older adults in creative problem solving and preference for complexity of visual figures and to explore the part degree of sex role identification might play in this relationship. 111 teachers, aged 20–83 years, took a battery of seven creativity tests, two intelligence measures, and the masculinity-femininity scale of the MMPI. Sex differences were found on only one creativity test (p < 0.01); this test taps figural abilities. No sex differences were found on the Barron-Welsh art scale and semantic transformation tests (p > 0.05). Degree of sex role identification was not found to be significantly related to creativity (p > 0.05).
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