Evaluative Self-efficacy and its Potential Role in the Evaluation and Selection of Ideas:A Metacognitive Perspective

Abstract 
In two studies, we examined the creativity of ideas gen-erated,  as  rated  by  judges,  and  metacognitive  feelings as antecedents of evaluative self-efficacy and relevance of strengths and weaknesses of the idea generated and accurate idea selection as consequences within the cre-ative  process.  Participants  in  both  studies  completed  a  measure  of  metacognitive  feelings,  evaluative  self-ef-ficacy,  and  a  divergent  thinking  task.  In  addition,  par-ticipants rated their ideas and either identified strengths and  weaknesses  or  selected  their  most  creative  idea. Two  independent  judges  evaluated  all  ideas  and  either assessed the relevance of the strengths and weaknesses identified  by  participants  or  selected  the  most  creative idea.  Results  showed  a  positive  relationship  between judges-evaluations  and  evaluative  self-efficacy  in  one study  and  a  positive  relationship  between  metacogni-tive feelings and evaluative self-efficacy in both studies. Regarding  consequences,  results  showed  a  positive  re-lationship  between  evaluative  self-efficacy  and  the  rel-evance  of  strengths  and  weaknesses  and  a  non-signifi-cant  relationship  between  evaluative  self-efficacy  and 0010accurate  idea  selection.  The  implications  of  our  results for metacognition and creative beliefs were explained.