The modeling of creativity explanation through self-management creative self-efficacy by mediate educational engagement in elementary students with learning Difficult

The present research was conducted to explain creativity, based on self-management and creative self-efficacy by mediating of educational engagement in elementary school students with learning Difficult.

The research method was a descriptive-correlation method with a path analysis design in the form of structural equations. The statistics society was included of students in 4th to 6th grads with learning problems that were engaged to educate in primary schools of Arak city in the academic year of 1400-1401, which were selected 200 boys’ and girls’ students (100 each gender) with learning problems as the research sample by using the purposeful sampling method. Data gathering tools were include Colorado Questionnaire, Shaffer's creativity questionnaire, Karwowski creative self-efficacy, Houghton and Neck's self-management, and Wilborn's educational engagement, which were completed by teachers and parents of students with learning Difficult. The collected data were analyzed by using Pearson's correlation coefficients and path way analysis in SPSS and AMOS software. From structural equations modeling method was used to investigate the research model fitness.
 

The findings showed that the research model have an agreeable fitness. Also acquired coefficients between variables parameters showed that meaningful direct effect of self-management dimensions and creative self-efficacy on educational engagement and creativity. In this means, by increasing the self -management and creative self-efficacy, there is a positive change in the degree of educational engagement and creativity in students with learning problems. So, the relationships between the variables of the model drawn in this research were confirmed.