The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among implicit theories of
creativity, sophisticated epistemological beliefs, and cognitive processes of creativity
of college students. A total of 709 college students(freshmen, sophomore, and junior)
of D University in Korea participated in this study. The results of this study were as
follows.First, the results of Pearson correlation analyses showed that there were
statistically significant positive correlations among sophisticated epistemological
beliefs(nature and source) and cognitive processes of creativity(flow, analogy, idea
generation, incubation, imagery, manipulation), and sophisticated epistemological belief
showed positive correlations with enhancement view and negative correlations with
fixed view of creativity. Second, the result of the path and model fit tests showed
that all the model fit indices of x² / df( p < .001), TLI, CFI, RMSEA were met
the acceptable model fit criteria, and shown to be a suitable model structure. The
significance and implications of this study were suggested.