The mediating role of cognitive flexibility in the relationship between motivational self-regulation and emotional creativity of students

The purpose of this research was to provide a structural model of the relationship between motivational self-regulation and emotional creativity of students with the mediating role of cognitive flexibility in female students. The method of this research was descriptive correlation type using structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research includes all female students of the second level of high school in Shahrbabak and Khansar cities who were studying in the academic year of 2001-02. The sample of the present study included 350 students who were selected by cluster random sampling.In order to collect data, motivational self-regulation tools, emotional creativity and cognitive flexibility questionnaire were used. How the model fit was evaluated using structural equation modeling method, AMOS 26.0 software and maximum likelihood estimation (ML). The research findings showed that the total path coefficient between motivational self-regulation and emotional creativity (P = 0.001, β = 0.360) and also the path coefficient between cognitive flexibility and emotional creativity (P = 0.001, β = 0.001) 388) was also positive and significant. Also, the indirect path coefficient between motivational self-regulation and emotional creativity (p = 0.001, β = 0.187) was positive and significant. This shows that motivational self-regulation and cognitive flexibility explain a total of 24% of the variance of emotional creativity in female students.