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Publication Date: 2017
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Creative Self-Efficacy: The Influence of Affective States and Social Persuasion as Antecedents and Imagination and Divergent Thinking as Consequences
Puente-Díaz, Rogelio; Cavazos-Arroyo, Judith
Creativity Research Journal, v29 n3 p304-312 2017
Two studies examined the influence of encouragement for creativity, curiosity, harmonious passion, and autonomy support as antecedents of creative self-efficacy and imagination and divergent thinking as consequences. College students completed a battery of questionnaires. Structural equation modeling treating the variables as latent and not normally distributed was used to test our hypotheses. Results from study 1 showed a positive influence of encouragement for creativity and curiosity on creative self-efficacy. Similarly, creative self-efficacy was a positive predictor of reproductive and creative imagination. Results from study 2 showed a positive effect of harmonious passion on creative self-efficacy. Creative self-efficacy was a positive predictor of fluency and originality scores from a divergent thinking task. The theoretical and applied implications of the results were discussed.
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Self Efficacy, College Students, Imagination, Questionnaires, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Structural Equation Models, Hypothesis Testing, Least Squares Statistics, Statistical Analysis
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico
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