Considering Creative Self-Efficacy: Its Current State and Ideas for Future Inquiry

Abstract The self-concept of creative self-efficacy (CSE), “the belief one has the ability to produce creative outcomes,” has drawn considerable research attention across different fields and operational domains, and among a variety of sample types. The intent of the current chapter is multifold. First, we provide an overview of the research to date that has addressed CSE in some manner, with insight into the types of roles CSE has played—as a correlate or outcome of individual and contextual factors, as a predictor of creativity-related outcomes, as well as a moderator and mediator in the presence of other factors. In addition to suggesting the nomological network in which CSE is embedded, the overview also suggests the utility of CSE in understanding the complex dynamics around creativity. We also address measurement aspects of CSE. Our final intent with the chapter is to illuminate some emergent research questions and potentially fruitful lines of future research inquiry that relate to CSE.