Investigating the role mediator of creativity and thinking style In the relationship between religiosity and post-traumatic growth

The aim of this study was to investigate the fit of the model of the relationship between religiosity and excellence after trauma with the mediating role of creativity and thinking style in veterans.

The present study is descriptive and correlational. The study sample was 362 veterans who were selected by simple random method from veterans (25 to 70%) of the Martyrs and Veterans Affairs Foundation of the cities of Tehran province in (1399). Data were collected using questionnaires of excellence after Tedچیi and Calhoun (2011), Allport and Ross religiosity (1950), Torrance creativity (1966) and Sternberg and Wagner (1979) thinking style. Data were analyzed using path analysis and SPSS25 and Amos24 software.

The results of path analysis showed that religiosity on thinking style, creativity and excellence after trauma; Thinking style on creativity; Creativity and thinking style have had direct and significant effects on post-traumatic excellence.
Religiosity also has a positive and significant indirect effect on post-traumatic excellence through the mediating role of creativity.

Religiosity along with creativity has a great effect on post-traumatic excellence in people with trauma. In other words, people with higher religiosity, religiosity affects their creativity And these people, in order to return to ideal conditions, with the help of their abilities and facilities, undertake mental and psychological reconstruction; Thus excellence is predictable after impact.