Abstract

The topicality of this research is caused by the fact that creativity represents a facet of creative abilities and has a great significance for understanding the whole picture of the entire teen age. In this connection, this article is dedicated to the study of creativity in the teenager’s personality structure. The key method to the study of this problem is a psychodiagnostic that gives a possibility to consider comprehensively the creativity components in the teenager’s personality structure and obtain valid, reliable and secure data. R. Cattell’s multi-factor questionnaire (a teenager’s version)and a test battery “Creative thinking” by E.E. Tunik are used as psychodiagnostic tools. The article gives a description of creativity as a component in the teenager’s personality structure. The relationships between creative abilities and other personal characteristics of an individual were revealed. The article also deals with methodical difficulties and the ways of improving the creativity diagnostics. The materials of the article will help to accomplish practical tasks of drawing up an individual development pathway of a teenager in his learning activity