The Predictive Relationship between Academic Self Efficacy and Ego Identity of Schooling Adolescents in Enugu State of Nigeria
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
The study investigated the extent to which academic self-efficacy predicts ego identity of schooling adolescents in Enugu State, Nigeria. One thousand two hundred schooling adolescents were selected randomly to participate in the study. A thirty item questionnaire each on academic self-efficacy and Ego identity were used to generate data for the study. One research question and one hypothesis were tested in the study and data were analyzed usinganalysis of variance (ANOVA) and correlations to determine the correlation coefficient and to test the hypothesis at 0.05 levels of significance. The result indicated that academic self efficacy predictedego identity of the subjects. Based on the findings, appropriate recommendations were made to the governments and parents, teachers and students. .It was also recommended that other variables that can influence ego identity be further studied. Keywords: Academic self efficacy, Ego Identity, Predictive, , correlation, performance
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Dr Sylvester Okenyi, Gabriel S Enyi
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