자연과학계열 대학생의 창의성에 영향을 미치는 다양성 수용도, 학습목표지향성, 임파워먼트 간의 구조관계 규명

Abstract

Creativity is one of the core competencies of 21st century leaders and is drawing attention as an important source of national competency. Emphasizing the obligation of cultivating talented people, this study aimed to understand the factors related to creativity for natural science college students and proposed optimal college-education success criteria. Openness to diversity, learning goal orientation, and empowerment were selected as core variables predicting creativity and the structural model among variables was postulated. Data from 253 natural science majors at a college in Gyeunggi-do, Korea were collected and analyzed using the structural equation model. As a result, openness to diversity had a direct effect on creativity improvement and learning goal orientation was demonstrated to indirectly influence such improvement through empowerment. Major influencing variables on the creativity of natural science college students were identified through this research, and ways to improve college students' creativity were proposed.