Self-efficacy (Creative)

What it measures

The scale measures a person's confidence in their own capacity to think creatively — to solve problems in original ways, build on others' ideas, and generate genuinely novel output. Adapted from an established measure of creative self-efficacy, it is useful in research on innovation, ideation, and how confidence shapes creative performance.

Response format

7-point Likert (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree)

Scale items

• I have confidence in my ability to solve problems creatively __________.
• I have a knack for further developing the ideas of others __________.
• I feel that I am good at generating novel ideas __________.

Full scale items shown. Always cite the original source when using this scale in research.

Usage notes & scoring

Adapted from Tierney and Farmer's (2002) established measure of creative self-efficacy; used by Hofstetter et al. (2021) with a large US MTurk sample. Reliability was excellent (α = .95). Validity wasn't separately discussed.

Citation

Hofstetter, R., Dahl, D.W., Aryobsei, S., & Herrmann, A. (2021). Constraining Ideas: How Seeing Ideas of Others Harms Creativity in Open Innovation. Journal of Marketing Research, 58(1), 95–114.

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