The causal modeling of creativity: The role of teacher-student interaction styles and basic psychological needs

The purpose of this study was to investigating the mediatory role of the satisfaction of basic psychological needs in relationship between Teacher Interaction and students creativity. This study is a path analysis correlational research. Community of the research includes girl students of sixth-grade from second district of Tehran. Research sample was composed of 250 students who selected Randomly. Participates answered the Abedi creativity questionnaire (1363), Deci and Ryan's Basic Psychological Needs questionnaire (2000) and Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) (Wubbels, 1993).Good Reliability (calculated by cronbach’s alpha) and validity (calculated by factor analysis)of every Questionnaires were obtained. The Results showed that four of eight Teacher Interaction’s types had good fitness models. The relationship between leading and uncertain types and creativity with mediatory of the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, was positive and significant and The relationship between understanding and responsibility/freedom types and creativity with mediatory of the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, was negative and significant. The Results indicate that the satisfaction of basic psychological needs is a convenient mediator variable for relationship between leading, uncertain, understanding and responsibility/freedom of eight types of Teacher Interaction and students creativity.