“Let us create!”: The mediating role of creative self-efficacy between personality and mental well-being in university students

Fino, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5095-6014 and Sun, S, 2022. “Let us create!”: The mediating role of creative self-efficacy between personality and mental well-being in university students. Personality and Individual Differences, 188: 111444. ISSN 0191-8869

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Abstract

The present study aimed to test a model of relationships between the Big-Five personality traits, Creative Self-Efficacy, and Mental Well-Being in a sample of Chinese undergraduate students (N = 248), controlling for gender and age. We found that Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness were positively associated with Mental Well-Being and Creative Self-Efficacy, and that Neuroticism was negatively associated with both Mental Well-Being and Creative Self-Efficacy, with the effects observed for Extraversion and Neuroticism being non-significant. Creative self-efficacy was positively and significantly associated with Mental Well-Being, fully mediated the effect of Openness, and partially mediated the effect of Conscientiousness on Mental Well-Being. These results contribute to explain individual differences in personality and Mental Well-Being through the indirect effect of Creative Self-Efficacy, a belief in one’s ability to innovatively overcome problems and achieve creative outcomes, supporting a theoretical model integrating Trait Theory and Social-Cognitive Theory. Further implications for theory, research, assessment, and intervention are discussed.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Personality and Individual Differences
Creators:	Fino, E. and Sun, S.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	April 2022
Volume:	188
ISSN:	0191-8869
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111444 DOI S0191886921008230 Publisher Item Identifier 1504449 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	17 Dec 2021 15:01
Last Modified:	28 Dec 2023 03:00
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45144

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