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标题：Self-efficacy Beliefs and Representation of Self and Psychology A Longitudinal Study with Psychology University Students
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作者：Rossella Falanga ; Rossella Falanga ; Maria Elvira De Caroli 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2014
卷号：140
页码：295-299
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.04.423
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：The present study was aimed to explore the relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and the representation of self and psychology in 67 students attending psychology degree course at University of Catania (East Sicily). Participants were interviewed both at the beginning of the first (T1) and the last year (T2) of the course. Measures: empathic, interpersonal-social communication, and problem solving self-efficacy scales (Caprara, 2001); semantic differentials for actual self, future self, and the psychology (see Osgood, Tannenbaum, & Suci, 1957); a 7-point Likert scale to assess the usefulness of psychology. Results: students improved interpersonal-social communication self-efficacy and enhanced the usefulness of psychology. Moreover, students at T2evaluated: actual self as more desirable, optimist, resistant, secure, and decided than at T1and future self as more forceful and desirable but less reflective, mature, calm, stable, and simple than at T1. Students at T2considered psychology as less deep, quiet, resistant, calm, stable, confident, and consistent than at T1. Empathic self-efficacy affected representation of psychology both at T1and at T2, and the representation of future self at T1and of actual self at T2. Interpersonal-social communication self-efficacy affected actual self at T1and future self at T2.
关键词：Perceived self-efficacy;self concept;representation of psychology;university students;