The Effect of Father-Adolescents Communication, Father's Emotional Expressiveness and Gender Equality Consciousness on Self-Efficacy of College Students: Focused on Gender Difference

The present study tries to find out the effect of speaking self-efficacy and gender in speaking activities particularly in English as second/foreign language situation, using questionnaire from Bandura’s Guide for constructing self-efficacy scales. The Samples of this study were 23 male and 27 female college-students from speaking classes. ANOVA and T-test helped by SPSS 15.0 for windows were employed to investigate speaking self-efficacy, gender and speaking activities. The result showed that the level of speaking self-efficacy both male and female students is moderate. They can moderately perform speaking activities but they think them quite though and difficult. Besides, Sig. for gender scores lower than .05 (.013 < .05), gender gave significant effect towards speaking activities. Yet, not only speaking self-efficacy partially (Sig .162 > .05) but also its simultaneous interaction with gender (Sig .0677 > .05) did not affect significantly towards speaking activities.

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Gender Difference in Creative Thinking Ability, Creative Disposition, Creative Product and Creative Self-efficacy of the Korean College Students

The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology ◽

10.18205/kpa.2011.16.4.010 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 595-611

Author(s):

김혜숙

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Gender Difference ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Thinking Ability ◽

Korean College Students ◽

Creative Self ◽

Creative Thinking Ability

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College Students’ Academic Achievement: Exploring the Role of Hope and Academic Self-Efficacy

International Dialogues on Education Journal ◽

10.53308/ide.v8i1.243 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 4-23

Author(s):

Esther C. Penzar ◽

Munyi Shea ◽

Cher N. Edwards

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Academic Achievement ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Specific Domain ◽

College Going ◽

Significant Difference ◽

First Generation College ◽

Trait Hope ◽

And Gender ◽

Academic Self Efficacy

In the present study, the relationships among trait hope, academic self-efficacy, and academic achievement (self-reported GPA) were examined among college students. Demographic differences were analyzed based on college-going status, ethnicity, and gender. First-generation college-going students (FGCS) reported significantly lower levels of hope, academic self-efficacy, and academic achievement when compared to non-FGCS. Male students reported significantly lower academic self-efficacy compared to female students. There was no statistically significant difference between non-White and White students. Overall, academic self-efficacy was a stronger predictor of achievement than hope. Between the two subscales of trait hope, agency was more strongly correlated with academic achievement than pathways. Furthermore, a mediation analysis indicated that academic self-efficacy fully accounted for the relationship between agency and academic achievement, which suggests that perceived capacity and agency to perform tasks in a specific domain may be more strongly associated with academic achievement than a general sense of hope and motivation.

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