A Casual Explanation of Creativity: The Role of ‎Attachment Styles and Positive and Negative Emotions

Subject Areas : Psychological creativity-logy

somayeh esmaeliy ¹ , Razieh Sheikholeslami ²

1 - psychology department, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
2 - Dpt of Educational Psychology. Faculty of Education and Psychology. Shiraz University. Shiraz. Iran

Received: 2017-09-28 Accepted : 2018-08-24 Published : 2018-09-21

Keywords: attachment styles, Creativity, Positive emotion, Negative emotion,

Abstract :

Background: Creativity is an effective key agent in the domain of social science, psychology and educational activities. In the modern world, innovation, creativity and problem solving ability are key skills. Creativity is standing on different factors such as attachment styles and positive and negative emotions. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of positive and negative emotions in the relationship between attachment styles and students' creativity. Method: The present research project was a correlation study in which the causal relationships between variables were studied in the form of structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this study consisted of all male and female undergraduate students of Islamic Azad University in the academic year 2015-2016, that among them, 574 students (329 female and 243 male) from all five faculties of Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz (Faculty of Engineering, Nursing, Basic Sciences, Agriculture and Humanities) were selected by cluster random sampling and completed Revised Adult Attachment Scale  (Collins & Read, 1990), positive and negative affects questionnaire (Bradshaw, 2009) and creativity questionnaire (Abedi, 1993). Results: The results of structural equation by using AMOS-22 software showed that the final model has good fitness with research data (CFI=0.985, GFI=0.978, IFI=0.986, X2/df=1.884, RMSEA=0.040, PCLOSE=0.884). The results of path analysis showed that secure and ambivalence attachment styles have direct effect on creativity. Also, attachment styles affected positive and negative emotions. Furthermore, the mediating role of negative emotion in the relationship between attachment styles and creativity was confirmed.  Conclusion: In sum, the results of this research indicate the determination role of attachment style and emotion on students' creativity. Keywords: Attachment styles, Creativity, Negative emotion, Positive emotion.

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