Predictors of the creative Islamic personality

Abstract EN

This paper, focusing on students of Islamic studies in public universities, was conducted to investigate the role of imaginational, intellectual, and emotional overexcitability in the creative Islamic personality.

Also, the influence of self-efficacy and the creative environment on these three forms of overexcitability and the Islamic creative personality in public universities were examined.

The sample comprised 396 Islamic students from 13 universities.

The following instruments were used: the overexcitability (Imaginational, Intellectual, and Emotional) subscales, Creative Environmental Scale, Self-Efficacy Scale, and Islamic Creative Personality Scale.

The data were analyzed through structural equation modeling.

The results revealed the following: (1) Increases in intellectual and emotional overexcitability lead to the enhancement of the Islamic creative personality.

(2) An enhancement in creative self-efficacy leads to the enhancement of the creative personality.

(3) An enhancement in the creative environment leads to the enhancement of the Islamic creative personality.

(4) Self-efficacy and the creative environment mediate the effects of intellectual and emotional overexcitability on the Islamic creative personality.