Objective To explore the relationship between mental health and creative motivation.Method 265 undergraduate students in Chongqing were surveyed with creative motivation scale

self-esteem questionary

self-supporting questionary and self-confidence questionnaires.The results were statistically analyzed.Results Self-esteem

self-supporting

self-confidence were positively related with challenge motivation and joviality motivation（P<0.01）

negtively related with relation motivation（P<0.01） and not related with guerdon motivation（P>0.05）.The multivariate stepwise regression analysis showed the regression coefficients of self-supporting and self-esteem to challenge motivation were 0.425 and 0.204（P<0.01） respectively;the regression coefficients of self-supporting and self-esteem to challenge motivation were 0.260 and 0.384（P<0.01）;the regression coefficient of self-supporting to ralation motivation was-0.369（P<0.01）.Conclusion Mental health is related to creative motivation.Self-supporting has obviously predictive effect on challenge motivation

joviality motivation and ralation motivation

and self-esteem has obviously predictive effect on challenge motivation and joviality motivation.