RT - Journal Article T1 - The Relation Between Emotional Creativity and Academic Enthusiasm in Public Health students in Gonabad university of medical sciences JF - gums-rme YR - 2016 JO - gums-rme VO - 8 IS - 4 UR - http://rme.gums.ac.ir/article-1-402-en.html SP - 11 EP - 18 K1 - creativity K1 - Emotion K1 - academic Enthusiasm K1 - Students AB - Introduction:Emotional creativity as one of creativities in emotional field needs to removing ordinary emotional reflectives and creating innovative emotional reflectives.in this regards, academicenthusiasm refer to behaviours that are related to learning and promoting.considering the importance of creativity and academic enthusiasm among students,this study has been done for studing relationship between emotional creativity and academic enthusiasm in public health students in Gonabad university of medical sciences. Methods: This is a descriptive- analytic and cross-sectional study.The study population included 352 students of the school of Public Health in Gonabad University of Medical Sciences in 2015. The sample based on kregcie and Morgan table was 185 students that were selected through stratified random sampling method. For gathering data the questionnaires of emotional creativity Averil (1994) and academic enthusiasm Frederick et al (2004) with reliability of (0.89 )and (0.72) were used respectively. Data were analysed using SPSS , Pearson correlation and regression test at the significant level of 0.05. Results:The results showed that the level of students' emotional creativity and academic enthusiasm School of Public Health were above average. There was a relationship between the emotional creativity and academic engagement(r=0.494 , p=0.001) and components of emotional readiness, effectiveness and genuineness were the components of anticipating students' enthusiasm (p=0.001). Conclusion: Given that there is a relationship between emotional creativity and academic engagement Therefore, the authorities of university must be reinforce students' emotional creativity and academic engagement Through educational courses and workshops. LA eng UL http://rme.gums.ac.ir/article-1-402-en.html M3 10.18869/acadpub.rme.8.4.11 ER -