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The study aims at finding the predictive ability of 21st skills in creative self-efficacy among a sample of gifted students in Jordan. The study sample consisted of (380) male and female students in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades from King Abdulla the Second of Excellence Schools and the Jubilee School in the academic year 2022-2023 who have been selected by convenience sampling. The predictive descriptive approach methodology was used in the study. To achieve the aim of the study, a scale was devised to measure the 21st-century skills of gifted students in Jordan, where creative self-efficacy was measured using the Abbott Measure (Abbott, 2010) as Arabized by Al Zu’bi (2014). The Study results have shown a high degree of competence in gifted students of 21st-century skills as well as high rates of creative self-efficacy. Results also have shown a statically significant positive correlation between students’ performance on 21st-century skills and their performance on the creative self-efficacy scale. Further results of the study showed that certain skills, such as life and work skills, creativity and innovation, communication skills, collaboration skills, citizenship, and problem-solving, have a statistically significant predictive ability in creative self-efficacy for gifted students. (Published abstract)