Self-efficacy

Academic motivation, in summary, is how motivated a student is to complete work given within their educational environment and how certain decisions can affect their future academically which can lead to drastic changes throughout their lives. Studies have been made to evaluate the academic motivation throughout different groups with different backgrounds and different ethnicities, just to name a couple. Self­efficacy and the emotions involved play a major role with academic motivation…

Self promoting behaviors are tactics that we us to try and induce others into thinking were competent. The tactics could be as simple as making an excuse for why we were not competent in a situation or it could be more complex such as staging our action at specific times and in specific instances in the presence of others, which we want to convince of our competence. As people we want to be seen as competent. To take pride in our skills, knowing that others understand and know how good we are…

Internet self-efficacy is a concept derived from self-efficacy as it applies to performing internet related activities. According to Oskay (2011) self-efficacy is one’s belief in his/her capacity to perform a specific task Eachus and Cassidy (2006) submit that access to the Internet is becoming increasingly commonplace and although the human computer interface is becoming increasingly intuitive, for inexperienced users there are still formidable problems. The Internet has the potential to impact…

educational program’s ability to increase financial literacy and self-efficacy for battered women. This article critique will highlight the main points, limitations, and conclusions of the research study and discuss what can be improved to better help the battered women’s population in gaining a stronger financial basis. Hypothesis For this particular study the hypothesis was explicitly stated. With financial literacy and financial efficacy being tested based on an economic education…

4.5.1. Self-Efficacy Theory Students acting productively can be better predicted by the beliefs they have about their capabilities more than what they can do. Despite the key role played by motivators in directing behaviour, they all in fact fall under the belief that one is empowered to produce changes by his/her own actions. The role of self-efficacy beliefs in the self-regulation of motivation through goal challenges and outcome expectations is unquestionable (Bandura, 1999; 2001).…

Given the role of self-efficacy in various aspects of life, the present study aimed to investigate the correlations of family functioning and personality traits with self-efficacy among the university students and the general public. To conduct this two-part study, it was first carried out in a sample of 500 students at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, and then in a larger sample consisting of 1000 subjects from the general public. The results of the present study revealed that the…

constructed characteristics of men and women. On the other hand, self-efficacy is the confidence that people have in their abilities that they can successfully perform a particular task (Bandura, 1997). Therefore, science self-efficacy is the belief in one’s own capability to do sciences and execute skills and knowledge needed to manage science content and processes (Decanio, 2006). According to Bandura (1997), there are four sources of self-efficacy i.e. mastery experiences, vicarious…

Technology integration and implementation in schools and classrooms is directly linked to teacher self-efficacy (Wang & Ertmer, 2003). The expectation for teachers to collaborate and use educational technology on a daily basis is increasing (ISTE, 2010) across school districts and communities. Yet, despite the increased availability and support for classroom computer use, relatively few teachers have fully integrated technology into their teaching (Wang & Ertmer, 2003). Research shows that user…

Abstract The present study was conducted among groups of university students to determine whether self-efficacy had an effect on social loafing. Each of the 80 participants were split into four conditions: collective (achievement priming or no priming) and coactive (achievement priming or no priming), where individuals in the primed conditions were asked to recall their greatest achievement. Each of the participants answered a question about their confidence level and then were told whether…

Self-efficacy concerns with perceived self-efficacy of an individual in managing his/her own life circumstances (Ahearne, Mathieu, & Rapp, 2005; Fernandez-Ballesteros et al., 2002; Hecht & Allen, 2005; Judge & Bono, 2001). Slightly different, Riggs and Knight (1994) point out that self-efficacy refers to individual judgments of the consequences that work performance is expected to produce (p.755). Similar to Riggs and Knight, R. Wood and Bandura (1989) define self-efficacy as beliefs in one’s…