title: Psychometric Properties of Creative Self-Efficacy Inventory Among Distinguished Students in Saudi Arabian Universities.
abstract: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of Abbott's Creative Self-Efficacy inventory. Saudi honors students (157 men vs. 163 women) participated. These students are undergraduates (M age = 19.5 year, SD = 1.9) who complete 30 credit hours with a grade point average of no less than 4.5 out of 5. The results showed that the internal consistency (α = .87) and the test-retest reliabilities (r = .73) were satisfactory. The study sample was separated into two subsamples. The data from the first subsample (n = 60) were used to conduct an exploratory factor analysis, whereas the data from the second subsample (n = 260) were used to perform a confirmatory factor analysis. The results of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis indicated that creative self-efficacy was not a unidimensional construct but consisted of two factors labeled "creative thinking self-efficacy" and "creative performance self-efficacy." As expected, this two-factor model fit the data adequately, supporting prior research that treated creative self-efficacy as multidimensional construct.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia kragges@ksu.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Khaled N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Alotaibi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Saudi Arabia; creative self-efficacy inventory; distinguished students; psychometric properties