The Relationships between Person-Environment Fit and Creativity Behavior of College Students

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study were (a) to modify version of Eugene’s Inventory of Creativity Behavior, and discuss the structure of the inventory; (b) to investigate differences of gender, major field of college students on creativity behavior and person-environment fit(P-E fit), and interaction effects of gender, major field and P-E fit. Final, (c) examining whether P-E fit is multidimensional through the different structure of P-E fit on the creativity behavior of college students. The data for the present study were collected from 324 undergraduate students (except freshman) at universities in Taiwan, which 168 male and 156 female completed the Inventory of Creativity Behavior, Inventory of P-E fit, and Inventory of Career Interest. The applied analysis methods were Descriptive Statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson Product-moment Correlation, Canonical Correlation, Stepwise Multiple Regression. The finding and conclusion of this study were as follows: 1.No gender differences were existed on P-E fit of college students, but major field differences were existed on P-E fit of college students. 2.Gender differences and major field differences were existed on partial scales of the Inventory of Creativity Behavior. 3.P-E fit was multidimensional through the different structure of P-E fit on the creativity behavior of college students; the canonical correlation was existed between the P-E fit and creativity behavior.