Open AccessAn Investigation of Learners’ Writing Self-Efficacy and Risk Taking in Writing
Author(s) -
Faradina Primarini Noorhaya Sari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-2237
pISSN - 2349-9788
DOI - 10.52403/ijrr.20210913
Subject(s) - psychology , correlation , mathematics education , test (biology) , self efficacy , professional writing , positive correlation , medicine , social psychology , mathematics , paleontology , geometry , biology
This study was a quantitative research conducted to find out the correlation between writing self-efficacy and writing. Additionally, this study also aimed to find the correlation between risk taking and writing. The subjects of this study were first grade students of vocational school. The instruments were writing self-efficacy questionnaire, writing risk taking questionnaire, and writing test. To analyse the data for both objectives, Spearman rho was used. The result showed firstly that there was not any significant correlation between writing self-efficacy and writing. Secondly, it was identified that there was not any significant correlation between writing risk taking and writing.Keywords: writing self-efficacy, writing risk taking, and writing.