Title
Academic Self-Efficacy in Psychology Students from a University in Lima
Other title
Autoeficacia académica en estudiantes de Psicología de una universidad de Lima
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Abstract
The aim of this descriptive study was to know the prevalence of academic sef-efficacy (ASE) in college students of a private university of in Lima. Participants were 730 psychology students (76.6% women) with ages between 16 and 47 years old (M = 20.72) from the 1st to the last year of college. As instrument we used the Scale of Specific Perceived Self-Efficacy of Academic Situations. The preliminary analysis was based on factor analysis, having as main objective to explore the measurement equivalence regardinggender and year of study. Results showed that the 17.4% of the participants have low-ASE, 61.2% medium-ASE, and the 21.4% high-ASE. Male participants reported more ASE than their peer females, and the 5th-year students have more ASE than 1st-year students.
Volume
21
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología (incluye relaciones hombre-máquina)
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098509555
Source
Revista Electronica de Investigacion Educativa
ISSN of the container
16074041
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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