To study the relationship between anxiety and creativity among high school teachers in the city of Kerman, the rate of teachers' anxiety was measured first and then its relation with teachers' creativity was investigated. This study is a descriptive-correlational type of research. The population of the study consisted of all high school teachers in Kerman who taught in 2013-2014. The number of subjects in the population was 2013 teachers and a sample of 236 individuals was selected from this population through stratified random sampling. To collect data, Cattell's Anxiety Inventory and Randsip's Creativity Questionnaire were used. To analyze data, applying SPSS, tables of descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, skewedness, and kurtosis) and Pearson's inferential statistics were used. The findings showed that there was not any significant relationship between anxiety and its measures (state and trait anxiety) and creativity. However, it was observed that there was a relatively significant and positive relationship between anxiety and creativity in low anxiety or medium anxiety individuals and the two variables were relatively and inversely related in highly anxious individuals. It is suggested that since teachers play an important role in a country's educational system, teachers with medium levels of anxiety should enter the educational system so that creativity would increase and education would be improved in the society.
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Mehrabifar,F. (2022). Relationship between Anxiety and Creativity in High School Teachers in Kerman. Transactions on Data Analysis in Social Science, 4(1), 26-32. doi: 10.47176/TDASS/2022.26
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Mehrabifar,F. . "Relationship between Anxiety and Creativity in High School Teachers in Kerman", Transactions on Data Analysis in Social Science, 4, 1, 2022, 26-32. doi: 10.47176/TDASS/2022.26
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Mehrabifar F. (2022). 'Relationship between Anxiety and Creativity in High School Teachers in Kerman', Transactions on Data Analysis in Social Science, 4(1), pp. 26-32. doi: 10.47176/TDASS/2022.26
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F. Mehrabifar, "Relationship between Anxiety and Creativity in High School Teachers in Kerman," Transactions on Data Analysis in Social Science, 4 1 (2022): 26-32, doi: 10.47176/TDASS/2022.26
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Mehrabifar F. Relationship between Anxiety and Creativity in High School Teachers in Kerman. TDASS, 2022; 4(1): 26-32. doi: 10.47176/TDASS/2022.26
