Designing a model of students' creativity based on the sense of belonging to the school with the role of mediator of resilience in schools of five military towns in Tehran

The purpose of this study was to design a model of students' creativity based on the sense of belonging to the school through resilience. This study was a correlation of structural equations. The statistical population of this study included 420 students classified in five military towns of Tehran who were studying in the academic year of 1998-99. A total of 205 individuals from this population were selected through Krejcie and Morgan table using multi-stage cluster random sampling method. Abedi Creativity Questionnaire (1993), School Belief (Barry, Betty and Watt, 2004) and Connor & Davidson (2003) Resilience Questionnaire were used to assess students. Structural equation modeling using LISREL software was used to analyze the data. Based on LISREL software output, X2 / df, RMSEA and CFI were 1.98, 0.052 and 0.92, respectively, which indicated a good fit of the study model. In this model, the path of feeling school belonging to creativity, the path of feeling school belonging to resilience, the path of resilience to creativity and also the path of feeling school belonging to creativity with mediation role of resilience were significant. According to the research findings, the feeling of belonging to school leads to students 'creativity and also the feeling of belonging to school leads to resilience in students, in addition, resilience leads to students' creativity and finally the feeling of belonging to school plays a mediating role. Resilience leads to creativity.