Self Efficacy Research

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

Higher Education is one of the main factors that obligates individual to achieve their goals and to face different life challenges. College life can be challenging and difficult for a new student, thus requiring a higher degree of student initiative, determination, and self-monitoring.

Many researchers tried to indentify factors to student success, by assessing the relations among many psychological and academic variables. Few studies have used different methods to propose and test models that can be used to understand the relations among factors that influence student academic success. (Momanyi, Ogoma, Misigo 2010; Peterson, Milstein, Chen, and Nakazawa 2011; Schunk 1991)

According to Mbathia

The study resulted that people may perform poorly in a task not necessarily because they lack the capability to succeed, but because they lack belief in their capabilities. Bandura (1997) defined efficacy as an individual’s belief that he or she can successfully execute the behaviours required by a particular situation

Indeed, Self-Efficacy also is one of the factors that influence your goals and success (failure) in life. Once, self-efficacy become lower than the ability of an individual, an individual never haves challenges and improvement.

Individuals with a high level of self-efficacy attempt tasks and keep up trying even though tasks might be difficult and think then that it is hard for them to accomplished it, while individuals with a low level of self-efficacy most of the time the kind of individual that don’t put a heart on his doing and easy to give up. As Bandura (1986), explains an individual’s beliefs about his abilities make up his sense of self-efficacy. Based on Bandura (1977), an individual that believes that they have high level of self-efficacy, the more he is willing to do the job done, which in itself makes it possible for the individual to be fully

It includes the research design, participants, instruments, and the statistical treatment of data.

In this study, the researcher used Regression Analysis; to see whether among self-efficacy and resilience really predicts academic performance. Regression Analysis is a statistical technique that allows one to predict scores on one variable on the basis of the scores of several other variables (Brace, 2007). This kind of research design basically it is used when a certain variable is studied in relationship to other factors expressed as predictor variables. But, regression analysis cannot be use when you are having variables that are usually similar to each other. Regression Analysis focuses on the part of the cause and effect of variables. Regression analysis is used by the researchers to know whether among the predicting variables (self-efficacy and resilience) predicts the criterion variable (academic performance). The predictor variables are also referred to as independent variables and the criterion variable is the dependent variable.