Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1086
The Moderating Effect of Human Capacities in the Relationship between Personality Traits and Creativity of Architecture Students
Abstract
A large and diverse number of studies on the relationship between creativity and personality have been conducted, but little or no study known has investigated the moderating influence of capacity in the relationship between personality traits and students’ level of creativity, a gap which this study seeks to bridge. This study investigates how human capacity moderates the relationship between students’ creativity and their personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism). The participants in this survey constituted a total of 320 that cut across Architecture students, Interior Design and Fine Arts students from the biggest five universities in Northern Cyprus. The questionnaire was developed for data collection. Data assembled was analyzed using mean and standard deviations, as well as percentages. Other analyses included correlation and regression analysis. Our findings illustrate that four dimensions of personality traits, except for Neuroticism, affect the individual level of creativity in varying degrees. Our findings also concluded that human capacity variables such as resources, skills, environmental conditions, intrinsic motivation and knowledge moderates the relationship between personality and students’ level of creativity.
Keywords
Creativity; Personality Traits; Individual Capacities; Architecture Students; Education