Investigating the Relationship between Emotion of Thought and Personality Traits and Creativity with the Mediating Role of Experiential Intelligence among High School Students

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotion of thought and personality traits and creativity with the mediating role of experiential intelligence among high school students.  The method of this research is correlational. The statistical population of the present study included male and female high school students in Rasht city with 1000 students, which 400 of them were girls and 600 were boys. Using Krejcie and Morgan's table, the sample size was estimated to be 266 people.  Based on multistage cluster random sampling, 118 students out of 400 girl students and 148 students out of 400 boy students were selected. Measurement tools in this study were Creativity Assessment Questionnaire known as Abedi's Creativity Test (1993), Berger’s Personality Test (Mansour, 1962), and Emotion of Thought Questionnaire (Kazemi, 2005). The results showed that creativity was positively and significantly associated with all variables of emotion of thought and creativity. Experiential intelligence had a significant relationship with all variables of emotion of thought except for emotional activity and personality traits except for activity. Creativity also showed significant correlation with experiential intelligence. Creativity showed the highest correlation with cognitive tenacity and sustainability. Creativity is based on an interactive personality, emotional, and cognitive framework.