The Creative Self

The Creative Self reviews and summarizes key theories, studies, and new ideas about the role and significance self-beliefs play in one's creativity. 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. Part I discusses how creativity plays a part in one's self-identity and its relationship with free will and efficacy. Part II discusses creativity present in day-to-day life across the lifespan. Part III highlights the intersection of the creative self with other variables such as mindset, domains, the brain, and individual differences. Part IV explores methodology and culture in relation to creativity. Part V, discusses additional constructs or theories that offer promise for future research on creativity. - Explores how beliefs about one's creativity are part of one's identity
- Investigates the development of self-beliefs about creativity
- Identifies external and personality factors influencing self-beliefs about creativity
- Incorporates worldwide research with cross-disciplinary contributors

Part I: Broad considerations 1. Toward Untangling Creative Self-Beliefs2. Considering Creative Self-Efficacy: Its Current State and Ideas for Future Inquiry3. Creativity and Identity4. Creativity and Free Will: Creative Thought Enhances Personal Freedom? Part II: Living a creative life5. Creativity and Identity Formation in Adolescence: A Developmental Perspective6. Self-Construction and Creative "Life Design7. The Creative Self in Dialogue8. Me, Myself, I, and Creativity: Self-Concepts of Eminent Creators Part III: Integrating multiple constructs9. Creativity Is Influenced by Domain, Creative Self-Efficacy, Mindset, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem10. Creativity, Self-Generated Thought, and the Brain's Default Network11. Individual Difference Correlates of Self-Perceptions of Creativity12. Are Implicit Theories of Creativity Domain Specific? Evidence and Implications Part IV: Specific considerations13. Creative Self-Efficacy From the Chinese Perspective: Review of Studies in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore14. Why You are Probably More Creative (and Less Creative) Than You Think15. The Creative Self in Context: Experience Sampling and the Ecology of Everyday Creativity16. Leading for Uniqueness: The Role of Uniqueness in Facilitating Creativity in Employees' Self-Concepts17. Mind Wandering, Creative Writing, and the Self Part V: New models and perspectives18. The Dynamic Force Before Intrinsic Motivation: Exploring Creative Needs19. Creativity and its Discontents: The Weary Voyager Model of Creativity in Relation to Self 20. From Having an Idea to Doing Something With it: Self-Regulation for Creativity21. Creative Mindsets: Prospects and Challenges