Investigating the Structural Pattern of Relationship between Personality Characteristics and Creativity by Mediating Role of Marital Satisfaction, Social Adjustment, and Mental Health

Background and Purpose: Creativity has many known and unknown dimensions and many researches have, so far, been done on the factors influencing creativity. The study of creativity, as one of the most important cognitive dimensions of the personality, is inadequate without taking into account the personality and the factors influencing it. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and creativity by the mediating role of marital satisfaction, social adjustment, and mental health. Method: This research is a descriptive and correlational study. The statistical population of the study consisted of all gifted students in Hamadan province and their mothers. The sample size consisted of 435 students selected through stratified sampling method. The data collection tool was NEO personality inventory (1981), satisfaction questionnaire (2011), Abedi's attitude creation scale (2004), short form of Reef psychological well-being (1989), and social adjustment questionnaire for students (Sinha and Singh, 1993). Structural equation method was used for data analysis. Results: The results of the data analysis indicated that the causal model of the research has a good fit and, in sum, all the pathway have positive coefficients except the path of neuroticism on marital satisfaction and neuroticism on creativity Conclusion: Marital satisfaction, social adjustment, and mental health can play a mediating role in the relationship between personality traits and creativity.