Educational Research Journal


Vol. 23 No. 2 , Pages 227 - 251 , 2008

Creative Organizational Climate of Schools, General Self-Efficacy, Creativity Self-Efficacy, and Cultural Efficacy of Teachers

Xinfa YI, Shushan CAI, Herbert SCHEITHAUER, Ralf SCHWARZER, Liang LUO, Silin HUANG, & Guang CHEN

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to examine the characteristics of the creative organizational climate of Chinese schools, teachers’ general self-efficacy, creativity self-efficacy and cultural efficacy of own culture and to analyse the relations between these four core variables. Our analyses revealed significant teaching duration differences, age differences and a significant two-way school × teaching subject interaction in creative organizational climate as well as significant gender difference in general self-efficacy. Results of a path analysis revealed significant path coefficients were from creative organizational climate to cultural efficacy of own culture, general self-efficacy, from general self-efficacy to cultural efficacy of own culture and creativity self-efficacy, and from cultural efficacy of own culture to creativity self-efficacy. Analyses only revealed evidence for an indirect pathway from creative organizational climate to creativity self-efficacy. Results suggest the development of interventions to increase creative organizational climate and enhance general self-efficacy in educational practices.

Keywords: creative organizational climate; general self-efficacy; creativity self-efficacy; cultural efficacy

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