Sources of Self-Efficacy Scale for High School Students: A Validation Study

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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to develop more reliable and valid measure for assessing sources of self-efficacy. Responses from 395 twelfth grade students were used for the final analysis. Findings in this study were consistent with previous studies that high school students indentified different sources of self-efficacy and differentiated social models in the terms for vicarious experience and social persuasion. Newly developed subscales for vicarious experience and social persuasion demonstrated moderately positive correlations with academic self-efficacy and achievement except for correlation coefficients with vicarious experience through family. High school students demonstrated no correlations for vicarious experience though family with academic self-efficacy and achievement.

Author

• Hyun Seon Ahn, Korea University - Brain and Motivation Research Institute