Abstract

MORELATO, Gabriela; CARRADA, Mariana  and  ISON, Mirta. Graphic creativity and focused attention in abused children. liber. [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.1, pp.81-91. ISSN 1729-4827.

Child abuse has a highly negative impact on growth, nonetheless, recent investigations in resilience point at the fact that some individuals can overcome extremely adverse situations. One relevant variable regarding resilience is creativity. At the same time, attention controls and guides the processes that lead to creative productions. The objectives were: to compare focused attention and graphic creativity in abused and non-abused children and to analyze the relationship between focused attention and the creativity variables. We evaluated 61 children of both sexes, between 7 and 12 years old, with and without family abuse records. The instruments were the CARAS Test (Thurstone & Yela, 1997), and the Graphic Creativity Test (Marín-Ibáñez, 1995). We found some important differences regarding creativity favoring children with no abuse indicators. No significant differences were found regarding attention, though abused children made more mistakes than non-abused ones.

Keywords : Child abuse; Resilience; Graphic creativity; Focused attention.

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