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Believe, and You Will Achieve: Changes over Time in Self‐Efficacy, Engagement, and Performance
Author(s) -
Ouweneel Else,
Schaufeli Wilmar B.,
Le Blanc Pascale M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
applied psychology: health and well‐being
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.276
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1758-0854
pISSN - 1758-0846
DOI - 10.1111/aphw.12008
Subject(s) - psychology , self efficacy , social psychology , task (project management) , student engagement , order (exchange) , developmental psychology , mathematics education , management , finance , economics
In order to answer the question whether changes in students' self‐efficacy levels co‐vary with similar changes in engagement and performance, a field study and an experimental study were conducted among university students. In order to do this, we adopted a subgroup approach. We created “natural” ( S tudy 1) and manipulated ( S tudy 2) subgroups based upon their change in self‐efficacy over time and examined whether these subgroups showed similar changes over time in engagement and performance. The results of both studies are partly in line with S ocial C ognitive T heory, in that they confirm that changes in self‐efficacy may have a significant impact on students' changes in cognition and motivation (i.e. engagement), as well as behavior (i.e. performance). More specifically, our results show that students' increases/decreases in self‐efficacy were related to corresponding increases/decreases in their study engagement and task performance over time. Examining the consequences of changes in students' self‐efficacy levels seems promising, both for research and practice.