The Creative Self ─ Effect of Beliefs, Self-Efficacy, Mindset, and Identity

The Creative Self is a collection of essays that synthesize, analyze, and discuss key theories, studies, and new ideas about the creative self-beliefs. It untangles the interrelated constructs of creative self-efficacy, creative metacognition, creative identity, and creative self-concept. It explores how and when creative self-beliefs are formed as well as how creative self-beliefs can be strengthened. The volume is separated into five sections. Part One, Broad Considerations, explores some of the overarching issues in the field. Part Two, Living a Creative Life, discusses the creativity present in day-to-day life across the lifespan. Part Three, Integrating Multiple Constructs, highlights the intersection of the creative self with such other variables as mindset, domains, the brain, and other individual differences. Part Four, Specific Considerations, discusses several nuanced topics that play a part in the creative self, from culture to methodology. Part Five, New Models and Perspectives, offers suggestions for additional constructs or theories that may offer promise for future work.

• Explores how beliefs about one’s creativity are part of one’s identity
• Investigates the development of self-beliefs about creativity
• Reviews personality factors that influence self-beliefs about creativity
• Identifies external factors that influence self-beliefs about creativity
• Includes research from an international and cross-disciplinary lineup of top scholars