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The current research aims to identify the creative self and cognitive flexibility and their relationship to some demographic variables. The current research sample consists of (280) students at the department of special education at the University of Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and applied the measure of creative self and cognitive flexibility of the researcher in Riyadh. The results of the study showed that the level of the creative self and cognitive flexibility was high among the research sample. There were also statistically significant differences between the students' means in the effectiveness of the creative self and the cognitive flexibility due to the gender variable inclining to the females and the absence of statistically significant differences between the students. The creative self and the cognitive flexibility are attributed to the variable of the educational level. The results also revealed a positive correlative relation between the effectiveness of the creative self and cognitive flexibility. (Published abstract)