Creative Self Efficacy of University Students in the light of Gender and Learning-Thinking Styles Related to Brain Dominance

Research Abstract

Creative Self Efficacy of University Students in the light of Gender and Learning-Thinking Styles Related to Brain Dominance Mohamed H. S. Hussein Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology Faculty of Education-Beni-Suef University Abstract: The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between creative self efficacy (CSE) {creative thinking self efficacy (CTSE); fluency, originality, elaboration, flexibility and total score, and creative performance self efficacy (CPSE); domain, field, personality, and the total score} of university students in the light of gender and learning-thinking styles related to brain dominance, and at identifying any of these variables could contribute to predicting the CTSE and CPSE. The study sample included (210) males and females in fourth year of faculty of education, Beni-Suef university. CSE scale translated by the researcher, and learning-thinking styles scale prepared by the researcher were administrated. Using Multivariate ANOVA, Partial Eta Squared, Scheffe post-hoc multiple comparisons, independent sample "T" test, and stepwise regression, results revealed; (1) the presence of statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the right thinking style students and the left thinking style students in fluency, elaboration, and total score of CTSE in favor of the right thinking style and the non-presence of statistically significant differences in originality, flexibility and the CPSE; (2) the presence of significant differences between the mean scores of males and females in originality, flexibility, the total score of CTSE, field, personality, and the total score of CPSE in favor of males and the non-presence of significant differences in fluency, elaboration and domain; (3) there is no statistically significant effect of interaction between learning-thinking styles and gender in the CSE. (4) gender and learning-thinking style (Brain Dominance) contributed to predicting the CTSE whereas gender only contributed to predicting the CPSE.

Research Keywords

-University Students-Creative Self Efficacy-Gender-