How adolescents develop and implement their ideas? On self-regulation of creative action

This study explores how adolescents regulate their activity while working on creative projects. A large sample (N = 739) of Polish reported most creative, complex project conducted within the last year and answered retrospectively framed self-regulation items related to this specific activity. Exploratory confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated a consistent pattern self-regulation, capturing pre-task self-regulatory strategies (obstacles expectations, uncertainty acceptance), during-task (adjusting approach, managing reframing ambiguous goals, emotion regulation dealing with obstacles), post-task (improving readiness for sharing). Participants' personality, self-concept, mindsets were robustly different reported. Additionally, resulted in differences creativity projects conducted. We discuss theoretical consequences future research directions studies.