Toward Dynamizing the Measurement of Creative Confidence Beliefs

Creativity researchers have typically assessed creative confidence beliefs (i.e., confidence to think and act creatively) using static, domain-general measures. In this article, we report on two studies that illustrate how more dynamic, task-specific, and microlongitudinal approaches can offer new insights into the nature of these beliefs. More specifically, Study 1 demonstrates how using dynamic and task-specific measures can help researchers clarify predictors of creative confidence, test mediational models, and identify factors associated with different categories in the accuracy of creative confidence beliefs. Study 2 provides an example of how researchers can use a microlongitudinal approach to assess changes in creative confidence and related variables (e.g., emotions) across different time intervals of a creative task, which includes exploring patterns of cross-lagged effects. We close by discussing how the use of more dynamic approaches to studying creative confidence beliefs can be used by creativity scholars to advance theory and research.