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The Big Five Personality Traits as a moderator of the Relationship between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Creative Personality
The current research is devoted to determining the influence of creative per- sonality traits and Big Five personality traits on the components of foreign lan- guage anxiety (test anxiety, communication apprehension, and fear of negative evaluation). Respondents (N=452) aged between 16 and 45 (M=23,41, SD=7,22) received the Renzulli Creative Personality Assessment scale, the Big Five Personality Traits survey proposed by Gosling, Renftrow and Swann, and the foreign language classroom anxiety scale (FLCAS) proposed by Horwitz. The present study hypothesised that creative personality traits influence FLCA components, and the Big Five moderate the relationship between creative personality and FLCA. The results of the study showed that the scale of creative personality predicts all FLA components. It was also concluded that agreeableness moderates the relationship between creative personality and FLA in groups with a certain socio-economic status. Based on the results, we suggest that teachers pay more attention to the individual differences of students con- trol the level of language anxiety.