A MODEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING TO ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Journal Title: Вісник Львівського університету. Серія психологічні науки - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The article sets out the results of the empirical research of psychological factors of self-efficacy of learning activity of students of higher education institutions. In general, 156 persons participated in the research – undergraduate intramural students of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv aged from 17 to 23 years. In order to identify psychological factors of self-efficacy of students’ learning activities, it is used standardized psychological diagnostic methods (“Academic self-efficacy of students” (I. Sniadanko), Big Five (R. R. MacCrae, P. T. Costa), the method for diagnostics of studying motivation of students of A. Rean, V. Yakunin (modification of N. Ts. Badmaieva), Students’ Achievement Motivation in Higher Educational Institutions (S. Pakulina), Personal Maturity Inventory (Yu. Z. Hilbukh) and a questionnaire. Based on an integrated index the group was divided into three sub-groups according to the level of learning self-efficacy: “highly effective students”, “students with medium self-efficacy” and “students with low self-efficacy”. The paper studies a correlation of learning self-efficacy with personal characteristics and motivational basis of learning activities of students. Due to Scheffe’s single-factor analysis of variance, Pearson correlation coefficient and factor analyses, psychological makers of persons with a high and low level of learning self-efficacy were defined. In particular, students with a high level of learning self-efficacy are characterized as more methodical and persistent in achieving desired goals, more responsible and conscientious and also they have internal achievement motivation. It determines the students’ ability to self-regulate the emotional-volitional state and their value attitude to educational activity and professional knowledge as stimulating psychological factors of academic self-efficacy.
Authors and Affiliations
Olena Musakovska
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP569806
- DOI -
- Views 42
- Downloads 0
“INCLUSION” CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS IN SOCIETY OF HEALTHY PEERS
The article deals with the importance of recognizing the rights of the child with special educational needs, her interests, providing her with social and psychological assistance in education at the present stage of deve...
GENERAL AND PROFESSIONAL MOTIVES AS PERSONAL CORRELATES OF DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS` METACOGNITIVE ACTIVITY
The article analyzes the interconnection of metacognitive activity indicators with the indicators of general and professional motives of students. A preliminary pilot study was carried out, and the obtained data on the p...
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF IDEAS ABOUT HAPPINESS AND ITS EXPERIENCES OF ADOLESCENCE
The phenomenon of happiness is not sufficiently studied in psychology. It is very difficult to investigate. Scientists do not even have a common idea of what to consider happiness. Different scientific sources formulate...
ATTITUDE TO ONESELF AND ONE’S LIFE PATH IN PERSONS WITH CLEARLY MANIFESTED PREDISPOSITION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSONALITY DEFENSE IN EARLY ADULTHOOD
The attitude to oneself and one’s life path in persons with clearly manifested predisposition to psychological personality defense at the age of 21-39 has been studied. It has been traced that the mechanisms of denial, p...
TIME PERSPECTIVE AS PREDISPOSITION OF STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC MOTIVATION
The relationship between academic motivation and students’ time perspective was investigated. Participants were 60 persons aged 19 to 32 years old – full-time students of various faculties of the University of Iceland wh...