University Students’ Creativity and Career Self-management: The Moderating Role of Personality Trait

Abstract

Fostering creativity needs a twofold policy that should focus on both the education situation and individual factor of students. Although many scholars and policy makers devote their attention to the first issue, it is equally important to map out the individual factors. The purpose of this paper is to fill this void by analyzing the impacts of creativity on career self-management of university students. A quantitative survey methodology was adopted to collect data from a university in China. A sample of 151 university students was used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 19.0 to determine the interactions between the various factors. Empirical findings confirmed that university students’ creativity had a positive direct effect on career self-management. Among the relationship, personality trait played the moderating role. When the students are more sensitive, creativity had a less significant positive effect on career self-management, when the students are more realistic, creativity had a more significant positive effect on career self-management.