Building upon and extending the interactionist perspective of creativity, social role theory, and role congruity theory, we develop an integrated multilevel model to examine gender differences in creative self‐efficacy and determine how the contextual factor of team psychological safety shapes employees' creative self‐efficacy and, through this motivational mechanism, influences their creative performance. Using data from a sample of 335 employees from a large food manufacturer collected over three time periods, we theorize and demonstrate the pivotal role of creative self‐efficacy in explaining gender differences in creative performance. Our findings indicate that women may have lower creative self‐efficacy than men in organizational contexts. However, team psychological safety restores parity between men and women through a cross‐level moderated mediation, such that psychological safety has a stronger effect on women's creative self‐efficacy than that of men, resulting in increased creative performance for women. These findings offer interesting implications for research on gender differences in creative performance and for human resources by pinpointing methods of bridging the existent differences in the creative self‐efficacy of men and women in organizations.

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揭示和弥合创意表现中的性别差异：多层次模型

我们以创造力，社会角色理论和角色融合理论的互动主义观点为基础，并扩展了这一观点，我们开发了一个集成的多层次模型来检验创意自我效能中的性别差异，并确定团队心理安全的背景因素如何塑造员工的创造自我。效果，并通过这种激励机制来影响其创造力。我们使用了一家大型食品制造商在三个时间段内收集的335名员工的样本数据，从理论上论证了创意自我效能在解释创意绩效中的性别差异方面的关键作用。我们的发现表明，在组织环境中，女性的创造自我效能可能比男性低。然而，团队的心理安全通过跨层次的调解来恢复男女之间的均等，因此心理安全对女性的创造自我效能的影响要强于男性，从而提高了女性的创造力。这些发现为研究男性和女性在组织创造力自我效能方面存在的差异提供了方法，从而为研究创造性表现中的性别差异和人力资源提供了有趣的启示。