The Moderating Effect of Creativity Potential on College Students' Creative Metacognition and its Relationship to Motivation and Creativity: A Contemporary Dance Perspective

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of the Creativity Motivation Scale (Zhang et al., 2018) among college dance students and to determine whether the effect of creativity motivation on mediating the relationship between creative metacognition and creativity is moderated by the level of creative potential. Methods Study 1 was conducted with 124 undergraduate dance students (15 males, 109 females) to explore the factor structure of the Korean adapted creativity motivation scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, and internal consistency analysis. Study 2 was conducted on 413 dance majors (53 males, 360 females) to test the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the creativity motivation scale and to examine the moderated mediating effects of creativity motivation and creative potential on the relationship between creative metacognition and creativity. The data were processed through descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, internal consistency. Results The confirmatory factor analysis in Study 1 resulted in a factor of 1 with 9 items extracted, accounting for 58.04% of the total variance. The reliability was ɑ=.905. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis in Study 2 indicated that the three-factor, nine-item measurement model was a good fit for the data. Internal reliability was very good (Cronbach's ɑ=.913, McDonald's =.913). The results of the regression analysis showed that creativity motivation partially mediated the relationship between creative metacognition and creativity, and the mediating effect of creativity motivation was moderated by the level of creative potential. Conclusions The findings suggest that enhancing creative metacognition, creativity motivation, and creative potential is necessary to foster choreographic competence and promote creativity in contemporary dance among college dance students.