A MODEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING TO ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

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.

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Olena Musakovska

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Olena Musakovska (2018). A MODEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING TO ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. Вісник Львівського університету. Серія психологічні науки, 3(), 136-141. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-569806