The Relationship between Personality Traits (NEO) and Creativity in Students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mother''s parenting style (permissive، authoritarian and authoritative)، personality traits (NEO Five Factors Model) and creativity in school students. 156 students were selected from all Shahrood''s schools and by multistage racemose hoppenstonce sampling. The instruments were، McCray and Costa NEO Personality Inventory Revised and the Abedi Creativity Test. The finding shows that there were positive relationships between creativivity and openness and conscientiousness and negative relationship between neuroticism and creativivity. A significant differencs were observed between boys and girl in tow dimensions neuroticism and extraversion. Neuroticism score for girls were higher as compared to that of boys and extraversion score for boys was higher than girls. No significant differenc was observed in the girls and boys creativity total score. However elaboration score for girls were higher as compared to that of boys and flexibility score for boys was higher than girls.