Creative self-efficacy and self-esteem as predictors of creative ability in university students

Creative ability is independent, varies according to the person and can be learned. Especially, in the artistic fields, the development of creativity can be considered important for the acquisition and maintenance of new learning. In students, higher or lower levels of creativity are related to certain variables with respect to competencies. This study aims to verify the relationships between the constructs of creativity and creative self-efficacy and personal variables such as general self-efficacy, self-esteem or anxiety. The sample consists of a group of University Students enrolled in the compulsory course Fundamentals of Music Education. Participants completed different questionnaires; a quantitative methodology was used, performing correlational and regression analyses. Creativity is associated with all the variables considered and there are only significant differences in the means based on the sex of the participants in one of them. The most notable conclusion is that there is an explanatory value in which both self-esteem and anxiety are related to the creativity of these students.