The Relationship of Creativity Domains with Personality Traits and Academic Environment in Higher Education

Authors

  • Malek N. Awawdeh

  • Lim Hooi Lian

Keywords:

creative person, higher education, creativity assessment, structural equation modeling

Abstract

Creativity assessment is the cornerstone of effective creativity development in higher education It is one of the main topics in creativity research as it is one of the most difficult skill to measure in any of the 21 st century skills We argue that in additions to the big five creativity in higher education is related to the environment and that more research is needed to understand this relations Therefore this study aimed to investigate this relations specifically creativity domain with personality traits and the academic environment Measures for these constructs were administered to 103 Malaysian undergraduate students In order to examine the nature of the relations between creative personality and other constructs we used Structural Equation Modeling The results indicate that the model is valid and reliable for assessing the creative person of higher education students This study showed that both personality traits and academic environment are important to assess the creative personality

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How to Cite

Malek N. Awawdeh, & Lim Hooi Lian. (2022). The Relationship of Creativity Domains with Personality Traits and Academic Environment in Higher Education. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 22(G3), 67–73. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/4048

The Relationship of Creativity Domains with Personality Traits and Academic Environment in Higher Education

Published

2022-04-20