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Assessing the Influence of a Self-Efficacy Intervention on Students' Motivation and Performance

Weinhardt, Justin M.

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
Self-efficacy, defined as one's belief in the capacity to perform some action, is generally assumed to be positively related to motivation and performance. However, the majority of research on self-efficacy has used passive observational designs, preventing researchers from making causal claims about the role of self-efficacy. In addition, there have been relatively few studies examining self-efficacy as an intervention. For the few exceptions, the interventions are often confounded with training or include other issues that limit internal, construct, and external validity. In the current study, a self-efficacy intervention independent of training was tested in a classroom setting. In addition to testing the intervention, individuals' self-efficacy, goals, motivation and performance were tracked throughout the semester. It was predicted that individuals who have their self-efficacy inflated would plan to study less because they believe they have high capacity, but will perform worse on the exam. However, the self-efficacy intervention was not effective. Across the exams at the within-person level, self-efficacy was unrelated to planned study time and exam performance. However, at the between-person level, only an indirect effect of self-efficacy on exam performance was found.
Jeff Vancouver (Committee Chair)
Rodger Griffeth (Committee Member)
Alicke Mark (Committee Member)
Davis Justin (Committee Member)
Iyer Dinesh (Committee Member)
77 p.

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  • Weinhardt, J. M. (2013). Assessing the Influence of a Self-Efficacy Intervention on Students' Motivation and Performance [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1363259898

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Weinhardt, Justin. Assessing the Influence of a Self-Efficacy Intervention on Students' Motivation and Performance. 2013. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1363259898.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Weinhardt, Justin. "Assessing the Influence of a Self-Efficacy Intervention on Students' Motivation and Performance." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1363259898

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)