Predicting educational success by identity styles and self-efficacy beliefs (personal and collective)in students

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract

Objectives:Predicting educational success by identity styles and self-efficacy beliefs (personal and collective)in high school boy students in Isfahan city.
Method: Subjects were selected from the high school students of the isfahan city. They were 274 high school boys. Sampling was by cluster sampling. We used Berzonsky’s identity styles inventory (revised by White and et all in 1989), Bandura’s personal self-efficacy beliefs(1997) and Kim and Park collective self-efficacy beliefs Questionnaire(1999). Pearson correlation and regresion was used.
Findings: The result of this study show that there is a significant direct relationship between informative identity style and normative identity style, personal self-efficacy beliefs and collective self-efficacy beliefs(p<./01). significant negative relationship was observed between confuse identity style and identity commitmen that is the more the score of the subjects is higher in confuse identity style the less his score is on identity commitment.
Results: Predicting educational success by identity styles and self-efficacy beliefs (personal and collective)in high school boy students in Isfahan city showed that identity styles and self-efficacy beliefs (personal and collective) were able to predicting of educational success

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