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Investigating the Relationship between Creativity and Personality Traits with Academic Progress of Secondary School Students in Rudan County

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mahdieh Ospid 1
mohamad raesi 2
abdollah irani 3
1 Undergraduate Student of Counseling, Farhangian University, Fatemeh Al-Zahra Campus, Bandar Abbas
2 Master's degree student in Educational Psychology, Bushehr Persian Gulf University
3 Bachelor of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Shahid Beheshti Campus, Bandar Abbas
10.22034/naes.2020.105930
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between creativity and personality traits with students' academic achievement. The statistical population of this study included all students of the second grade of primary education in Rudan city in the academic year of 2009-2010, which consisted of 1285 people. The statistical sample of the study was estimated to be 352 people using stratified random method based on Cochran's formula. This study was performed using descriptive correlation and to collect data from three standard questionnaires of personality traits (McCray and Costa, 1985), academic achievement (Fam and Taylor, 1999) and creativity (Torrance, 1962). Pierce's correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between creativity and personality traits with students' academic achievement at the level of less than 0.05. . There is a positive and significant relationship between the components of creativity (fluidity, expansion, initiative and flexibility) with students' academic progress at the level of less than 0.05. There is a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of extroverted personality traits, flexibility, compassion and conscientiousness with students' academic achievement at the level of less than 0.05. On the other hand, there is a negative and significant relationship between the psychological component and students' academic achievement.
Keywords
Creativity
personality traits
academic achievement
academic motivation
students

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 04 April 2020
  • Revise Date 11 April 2020
  • Accept Date 11 April 2020
  • First Publish Date 11 April 2020
  • Publish Date 20 March 2020