The purpose of the study is to develope and validate creative self efficacy scale for college students. The subjects are 671 undergraduates from 4 universities including 300 male and 371 female students in Korea. To develope creative self-efficacy sca...
The purpose of the study is to develope and validate creative self efficacy scale for college students. The subjects are 671 undergraduates from 4 universities including 300 male and 371 female students in Korea. To develope creative self-efficacy scale, the researcher developed, examined, and revised preliminary items of creative self-efficacy. In the analysis exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were performed. In the exploratory stage of factor analysis, two factors were thought as appropriate which were creative thinking efficacy and creative performance efficacy by combining scree test and literatures of creative self-efficacy. After that, the researcher examined confirmatory factor analysis of creative self-efficacy factors with another group of college students. Based on this, the results were χ2=277.555(df=149, p<.01), GFI=.914, CFI=.959, TLI=.953, and RMSEA=.053. The fits of research model were good which meant that the data fitted the model very well. By the result of the study, 8 items of creative thinking self-efficacy and 11 items of creative performance self-efficacy items were selected. In addition to it, when the researcher examined the reliability of test, Cronbach α for creative thinking self-efficacy was .890, creative performance self efficacy was .895, and total creative self-efficacy was .937. This study has implication in developing and validating creative self-efficacy scale for Korean college students. With reference to the result of the study, the researcher described that relation of advanced research, implication and limitation of this study.