Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy for Mothers at the Bulili Health Center, City Palu, Indonesia

Background: Breastfeeding plays an important role in building the relationship between mother and baby, also the baby's growth and development. Improving the mother's self-confidence during breastfeeding is a key to the success of breastfeeding. Exclusive breastfeeding in the working area of the Bulili Health Center is still low, about 37.17%. Breastfeeding self-efficacy (BSE) is a mother's self-confidence in her ability to breastfeed her baby. Objective: This study aimed to analyze the factors related to breastfeeding self-efficacy in the working area of the Bulili Public Health Center, Palu City. Method: This research design was quantitative with a cross-sectional design, involving 82 mothers who have babies aged 6-12 months in the working area of the Bulili Health Center. The instrument used in this study was a Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form questionnaire containing demographic data, breastfeeding experience data, observations of others, verbal persuasion, physical and emotional conditions. The data were analyzed using SPSS and Fisher's Exact Test with a significant level of p <0.05. Results: The sample with good breastfeeding experience was 62.9%, those who got the experience of others in the good category were 61.0%, those samples with verbal persuasion were in a good category of 75.6%. All samples (100%) were in good physiological and emotional condition. Breastfeeding Self-efficacy with a good category was 90.2%. The statistical test showed that the respondent's breastfeeding experience, other people's experiences, and verbal persuasion did not significantly correlate with Breastfeeding Self-efficacy with a p-value <0.05. Conclusion: Breastfeeding experience factors, experiences of other people, physiological and emotional conditions, and verbal persuasion did not significantly relate to the breastfeeding self-efficacy (BSE) of mothers and babies in the Bulili Health Center Work Area, Palu City.

Self-efficacy of Employees in Educational Institutions: Determinants and Pillars

The study aims to identify the self-efficacy of workers in Libyan educational institutions. The problem of the study lies in the low self-efficacy of workers in Libyan educational institutions, which negatively affects the job performance of workers in these institutions. The study highlights the importance of highlighting the elements of self-efficacy to be used in all Libyan educational institutions. The study followed the descriptive analytical approach to describe and analyze the self-efficacy of workers in Libyan educational institutions. The study reached many results, including that self-efficacy has a prominent role in improving the job performance of workers in Libyan educational institutions. The results of the study also showed that one of the most prominent determinants of self-efficacy is the previous experience that workers can use in all the situations they face within the Libyan educational institutions. Also, the results of the study concluded that verbal persuasion can be used to highlight self-efficacy at work, and the results of the study showed that emotional influence is one of the most prominent determinants of self-efficacy, as well as previous experiences of the most prominent determinants of self-efficacy in Libyan educational institutions. The results also showed that employees and the organizational environment are among the most important pillars of self-efficacy in Libyan educational institutions. The study recommended the necessity of working to provide the employees with the opportunity to clarify their self-efficacy and work to improve the performance of Libyan educational institutions significantly.

Putting the Self in Self-Efficacy: Personal Factors in the Development of Early Teacher Self-Efficacy

The factors that influence the construction of a teacher’s sense of self-efficacy are complex. The authors used a qualitative research design to explore the reflections of a sample of 25 K-12 early career teachers as they made sense of their own abilities. The results show that theorized sources of self-efficacy—mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, and verbal persuasion—all remain important but are interpreted through each participant’s unique background and conception of identity. Teacher Self-Efficacy emerged as a construct that both influenced and was influenced by this collection of individual factors. This study provides insight into how each teacher’s unique experiences interact dynamically with school environments and personal stories to shape their sense of self-efficacy. The findings can influence how new teachers are supported by coaches and teacher educators to build the confidence and motivation necessary to persist through the challenges of teaching.

For Student’s Motivation: The Role of Coping

Motivation is what we think we can do. According to the socio-cognitive approach, self-efficacy is one of the six most essential constituents of reason. This feeling encompasses all of the individual's beliefs about their abilities to implement the behaviors they deem helpful to achieve the desired results. The Sense of Perceived Personal Efficacy influences the choice of activities, performance, the expenditure of effort, persistence in the face of difficulties, positive or negative thoughts, and emotional reactions. These beliefs regulate human behavior according to four processes, primarily the affective process (coping principally). The Sense of Self-Efficacy is based on four factors: lived experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, emotional or physiological states, and sources of information about the Sense of Self-Efficacy. This article summarizes research that revolves around the following questions: is there a link between feelings of Perceived Self-Efficacy and coping strategies; can we act on the student's motivation through his Sense of Perceived Self-Efficacy possibly modifiable by coping strategies?

Development of a long-term care self-efficacy improvement programme for families living with people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment

Associate Professor Satomi Maruo, Kobe City College of Nursing, Japan, is developing programmes to help families care for their elderly relatives, particularly those with dementia. Her current programme effectively integrates four key sources of self efficacy. A key part of the programme is improving carers' knowledge bases in order to improve their ability to look after their relatives and enhancing self-efficacy, including 'verbal persuasion' and 'emotional arousal'. Another important element of this work is providing a space for carers to discuss their experiences and understand that they are not alone; otherwise known as 'vicarious experience'. In addition, through the programme, Maruo provides carers with examples of hypothetical situations they might encounter with their relatives and works through these with them, instilling new ideas and perspectives and leading to the 'achievement of executive action'. Self-efficacy is a key theme of this work and, in the context of dementia care, it implies mastery of the skills needed by carers to care for their relatives and observe subsequent improvements in cognitive state. This involves anticipating and adapting to changing circumstances, with symptoms of dementia changing regularly over time.

Academic Performance and Procrastination: The Case of Education Students in MSU-Sulu

This kind of attitude among the university students stems out of laziness and lack of prioritization in their academic endeavor. Research says that 95% of American students purposely delay beginning or completing tasks and 70% engaged in academic procrastination. It is not impossible that Filipinos are actually expert in procrastination. In other words, procrastination largely accounts for the relationship of conscientiousness to performance, and that procrastination is strongly associated with distractibility, poor organization, low achievement motivation, and an intention-action gap. If one is not conscientious in his performance he will likely engage in procrastination. Additionally, agreeableness and sensation seeking traits generated low correlations with procrastination. One possible way to decrease procrastination for tasks is to increase expectancy of success, or self- efficacy by verbal persuasion, emotional arousal, and modeling. Despite of the advances in the education nowadays, and the challenging tasks that students faced day by day to cope up with the requirements of their respective courses, they are still in the realm of seemingly taking their studies for granted that as if it’s easy or simply put, procrastinating! In connection, it sought to answer this question: Is there a relationship between procrastination to the academic performance in GEC 104 (Mathematics in the Modern World) of the 2nd year students of the College of Education at Mindanao State University-Sulu?

AN INVESTIGATION OF 10th GRADE STUDENTS’ SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS IN MATHEMATICS

The core of the survey was to investigate Mathematics self-efficacy of those students who study at 10th grade. Overall, 245 students of grade 10 were engaged as respondents of this survey. To evoke efficacious inclination of students, a translated version (Urdu) of “Sources of Mathematics self-efficacy Scale” originally developed by Lopez and his associates (1991) was administered which presented the items on five levels based on Likert type entailing 40 statements of efficacy indicating its four emerging dimensions as “Performance Accomplishment, Vicarious Information, Verbal Persuasion and Emotional Arousal”. Using SPSS for the analysis of data, both descriptive (mean, standard deviation) and inferential (t-test) statistics were used. It was inferred from the overall analysis that the four self-efficacy sources were positively effecting the self-efficacy beliefs of students in Mathematics. However, boys are more influenced by the knowledge they get on their successful completion of task. They also enjoy comparing themselves with other peers. On the other hand, when girls are verbally encouraged, they feel confident while they also feel more anxiety as compared to boys. Sector was difference was also significant as students of public sector schools feel confident over successful completion of task that they can do well in future because they performed it in past with precision while students of private sector schools were more confident on influential effects by rest of the sources. In short, students found to be efficacious and all factors or sources contributed in making their mind set to be more efficacious to deal with Mathematics although with varying degree. Now it is the responsibility of teachers of Mathematics to come forward to provide them such activities that may involve them more in advanced level learning of Mathematics and help them in coping this subject in a more successful manner. In this way, self-efficacy can be a strong predictor of their academic gains. Efficacy in Mathematics cannot be differentiated on gender basis as it is a myth that boys always have natural inclination and therefore their self-efficacy beliefs are high than girls

Academic Performance and Procrastination: The Case of Education Students in MSU-Sulu

This kind of attitude among the university students stems out of laziness and lack of prioritization in their academic endeavor. Research says that 95% of American students purposely delay beginning or completing tasks and 70% engaged in academic procrastination. It is not impossible that Filipinos are actually expert in procrastination. In other words, procrastination largely accounts for the relationship of conscientiousness to performance, and that procrastination is strongly associated with distractibility, poor organization, low achievement motivation, and an intention-action gap. If one is not conscientious in his performance he will likely engage in procrastination. Additionally, agreeableness and sensation seeking traits generated low correlations with procrastination. One possible way to decrease procrastination for tasks is to increase expectancy of success, or self- efficacy by verbal persuasion, emotional arousal, and modeling. Despite of the advances in the education nowadays, and the challenging tasks that students faced day by day to cope up with the requirements of their respective courses, they are still in the realm of seemingly taking their studies for granted that as if it’s easy or simply put, procrastinating! In connection, it sought to answer this question: Is there a relationship between procrastination to the academic performance in GEC 104 (Mathematics in the Modern World) of the 2nd year students of the College of Education at Mindanao State University-Sulu?