ERIC Number: EJ1384678
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Aug
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0004-9441
EISSN: EISSN-2050-5884
Creative Self-Beliefs among Children and Adolescents
Australian Journal of Education, v67 n2 p181-195 Aug 2023
Young people's confidence in their creative abilities, as well as their beliefs about whether these abilities are fixed or malleable, play potentially important roles in educators' efforts to foster creativity. This study explores a multidimensional model of young people's creative self-beliefs that comprises creative self-efficacy, growth-creative mindsets, and fixed-creative mindsets. It operationalizes and tests this model via a new three-factor instrument appropriate for young samples. Drawing on data from 2980 children and adolescents (mean age 12-13 years), confirmatory factor analysis established the construct validity of the scales, and hence, the multidimensional concepts underpinning creative self-beliefs. All measures evinced suitable levels of reliability, and invariance analysis supported configural, metric, and scalar invariance across gender, language background, and school type. Findings supported the convergent and divergent validity of scales against Big Five (openness and conscientiousness) personality measures. Implications of this three-factor creative self-beliefs model for researchers, educational practitioners, and youth are discussed.
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Creativity, Self Concept, Beliefs, Self Efficacy, World Views, Individual Development, Factor Analysis, Construct Validity, Reliability, High School Students, Elementary School Students, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Big Five Inventory
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