The Relationship between Handedness with Cognitive Styles and Creativity Among high school students in Ghorveh city

The current study sets out to examine the connection between handedness and cognitive styles (field-dependent and field-independent), and creativity in guidance school students in Qorveh County. In terms of goal and methodology, the research is applied and uses a correlational approach. The study's population consists of all male first-year high school students in Qorveh City during the second semester of the 2007–2008 academic year, which, according to the announcement of the Education and Training Department of Qorveh, amounted to 830 students. The sample size was determined to be 220 using Cochran's formula. In this study, multi-stage cluster sampling was used to choose samples from the population. For data analysis, the research used the structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology. Participants were asked to complete the Chapman Dominance Hand Test, the Embedded Figures Test, and Abedi's Creativity Test. SmartPLS software was used for data analysis. The findings showed that handedness has a substantial direct impact on cognitive styles, cognitive styles have a substantial direct impact on creativity, and handedness has a substantial direct impact on creativity.