Equalitarianism, Curiosity, and Creativity: Partial Replication
In a previous study (Joesting & Joesting, 1973) of female undergraduates at a southern state university, small significant correlations were found between creativity and equalitarianism. Equalitarianism or anti-sexism was defined as the belief that all people, regardless of sex, should have equal political and social rights. Creativity was considered "becoming sensitive to or aware of problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, and so on; bringing together in new relationships available existing information; defining the difficulty of identifying the missing elements; searching for solutions, making guesses, or formulating hypotheses about the problems or deficiencies; testing and retesting these hypotheses and modifying and retesting them; perfecting them; and finally communicating the results" (Torrance, 1970). In this study, What Kind of Person Are You (Torrance 8: Khatena, 1970), Life Scyles for Women Attitude Scale (Burns, 1974), Dempewolff Feminism Scale (Dempewolff, 1974), Joesting Sex-role Questionnaire as used in Joesting and Joesting ( 1972), and a Scale of Academic Curiosity (Vidler & Rawan, 1974) were administered to both male and female undergraduates attending an Eatern Shore College. Items for What Kind of Person Are You were drawn from empirical studies of creative people; there are 84 characteristics assumed to differentiate creative from less creative people. Fifty forcedchoice items were construcred (Torrance & Khatena, 1970). Life Styles for Women, an attitude scale, was developed to sample feeling with regard to a career or traditional orientation. A 5-point Likert-type scale provided response choices (Burns, 1974). Through factor analysis, Dempewolff's Feminism Scale was developed to measure feelings toward the aims of the women's liberation movement (Dempewolff, 1974). Joesting Sex-role Questionnaire nine item true-false questionnaire was originally developed to determine the attitudes about sex roles of anti-war demonstrators (Joesting & Joesting, 1972). A Scale of Academic Curiosity purports to measure curiosity related to academic situations. It is composed of 80 true-false items and has satisfactory reliability and en. couraging construct validity (Vidler & Rawan, 1974). Table 1 shows h e means, standard deviations, and Ns for all measures. Using t test, sex differences were found on Dempewolff Feminism Scale (males' M = 76.37,