Relation of self-efficacy expectations to academic achievement and persistence.

摘要: This study examined the relation of self-efficacy beliefs to subjects' persistence and success in pursuing science engineering college majors. Subjects were 42 students who participated a 10-week career-planning course on fields. They completed several measures , involving their perceived ability fulfill educational requirements job duties variety technical/sci entific occupations. Findings indicated that subjects reporting high for generally achieved higher grades persisted longer technical/scientific majors over following year than those with low self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was also moderately correlated objective predictors academic aptitude achievement. Implications further extension theory vocational behavior are discussed. Bandura (1977, 1982) has recently proposed theoretical framework explain predict change. Essentially, he suggested changes by diverse methods mediated common cognitive mechanism. expectations, meaning about one's successfully perform given task or behavior, hypothesized determine whether coping will be initiated, how much effort expended, long sustained face obstacles aversive experiences. Thus far, been studied clinical problems such as snake phobias (Bandura & Adams, 1977), social skills (Moe Zeiss, 1982), smoking cessation maintenance (DiClemente, 1981). Results have persons' efficacy expectations useful predicting change independently different treatment approaches used. Recently, Hackett Betz (1981) extended hypothesizing ex