Human Capacities as a Moderating Factor in the Relationship Between Creativity and Personality Traits. Evident from Northern Cyprus

Many studies aimed to address the relationship between creativity and personality, but these researches lacked an important element, which is the research on the moderate effect of individual capacity in the relationship between creativity and students' personality traits, which is what this study focused on. The study investigated how individual capacity modifies the relationship between students' personality traits [openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, acceptance, and neuroticism] and their creativity. At the same time, the individual capacity factors are skills, knowledge, environment, intrinsic motivation, and resources. A questionnaire was developed to collect data from a study sample of 320 students from Northern Cyprus studying architecture, interior design and art and the four major faculties of Near East University [NEU], Eastern Mediterranean University [EMU], Cyprus International University [CIU], and Girne American University [GAU] participated in this study. SEM program was used to analyze the data, where the study relied on the method of standard deviations, mean correlation and regression analysis, and percentages. The results showed that the four personality traits, with the exception of neuroticism, affect the individual's creativity to different degrees. Also, human ability variables such as environmental conditions, resources, skills, internal motivation, and knowledge modify the relationship between students' creativity level and personalities.