The relationship between cognitive styles (in)dependent and creativity Among high school students in Ghorveh city

This research aims to investigate the relationship between the (in)dependent field cognitive styles and the creativity of boy students in junior high school in Qorveh city. The current study is applied research in terms of the goal and the correlation with a modeling method of structural equations in terms of research. The statistical population of this research includes all the boy students of a junior high school in Qorveh city during 2014-2015, and based on the announcement of its educational management, there were 830 people. Using Cochran's formula, the volume of data obtained was 220 people. To gather data, Eltman, Raskin, and Witkin's test (1971) and Abedi's creativity test are used to evaluate the (in)dependent cognitive styles. To analyze the data, the structural equation model is utilized using the SmartPLS software. The reliability coefficient of variables based on Cronbach's alpha was 0.715 for the cognitive styles, and 0.946 for the creativity that indicated acceptable reliability. The average variance extracted for the cognitive styles was 0.559 and for the creativity 0.641, which indicated the acceptable validity values. The results show that cognitive styles have a significant and direct effect on the students' creativity.