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Background: Creativity, an important form of social and economic capital, is a crucial factor for college students seeking to gain competitive advantage in the increasingly challenging job market, and it has become a core competency that contemporary college students must master. In the field of education, increasing attention is being paid to the connotation and functional mechanism of college students’ creativity (SC). This study explored the mechanism of college teachers’ positive implicit followership (TPIF) in SC cultivation, and investigated the mediation effects of teacher innovation support (TIS) and students' creative self-efficacy (CSE) in this mechanism. In this study, a total of 677 teacher-student pairs were collected from 10 universities in Shandong Province of China. TPIF were measured with self-reported teacher questionnaires, and SC, TIS, CSE were measured with self-reported student questionnaires. This study used SPSS26.0 and AMOS26.0 to verify the main effect and analyze the mediation effect and chain mediation effect for TIS and CSE. In the Chinese context, TPIF has a positive predictive effect on SC, and within TPIF and SC, teacher innovation support and creative self-efficacy exhibit a chain mediation effect. This study is the first to explore the influence of TPIF on SC in the context of college teachers and students. It observes the cultivation of SC from a new angle. Exploring the influence mechanism of TPIF on SC can provide a basis for the cultivation and development of SC in college education.