Predicting Creativity Based on Individual and Contextual Variables of Sternberg's Investment Theory

This research aims to predict creativity according to individual and contextual variables of Sternberg’s investment theory among Iranian university students. For this reason the sample of 400 bachelor students (202 girls and 198 boys) were selected from various faculties of Tehran city Universities using random multi-stage cluster sampling. Research instrument was Multifaceted Assessment of Creativity questionnaire (Zhang and et al., 2011) in two forms of assessing school girls and boys. This instrument measures the extent to which people take into account the 6 resources of intelligence, knowledge, intellectual styles, personality, motivation, and environment for creativity through evaluating 30 hypothetical students. Results of step wise regression showed that predictor variables of intelligence, intellectual styles and environment can indicate 79 percent of changes in school judgment and variables of intelligence, motivation and intellectual styles can indicate 85 percent of changes in my judgment about students’ creativity. The remarkable point based on the results is that in predicting school judgment, environment variable and in predicting self-judgment, motivation variable is significant which its explanation are discussed in the article.