Determination of the structural relationship between personality traits and creativity based on the role of intelligence and knowledge as the mediator

The data show that in the general research model, it is assumed that personality traits predict creativity both directly and through the mediation of knowledge and intelligence variables. The way of collecting data and model processing was investigated by using structural equation modeling analysis method and AMOS 24.0 software and Maximum Likliehood Estimation (M).

The result shows that the path coefficient between personality openness and creativity mediated by intelligence is positive (β=0.124 , p<0.01) and it is significant at the level of 0.01. Although the path coefficient between personality conscientiousness and creativity mediated by intelligence was not significant at the level of 0.05 (β=0.042, P=0.070)Despite this, aforementioned inderect path coefficient was significant at the level of 0.07, which is a valuable finding. Accordingly, it was concluded in the forth test that intelligence mediates positively and significantly the relationship, between personality traits openness and [with a little negligence] conscientiousness with creativity, which the indirect path coefficient between personality openness and creativity (β=0.154, P<0.01) in one hand, and the indirect path coefficient between personally conscientiousness, on the other hand, is positive and significant at the level of 0.01. This suggests that the two variables of intelligence and knowledge mediate the relationship between the two factors of openness and conscientiousness with creativity.