Predicting Self-Efficacy among Secondary School Students on the Basis of Obedient-Disobedient Tendency, Emotional Competence and Educational Aspirations

Abstract

The current study intends to analyze secondary school students' self-efficacy in relation to obedient-disobedient tendency, emotional competence, and educational aspirations. The dependent variable was self-efficacy, while the independent variables were obedient-disobedient tendency, emotional competence, and educational aspirations.For the current investigation, a descriptive survey method was used. A total of 562 pupils were chosen using a multi-stage random sampling technique. Students' self-efficacy scales created by Dahiya and Kumari (2018), emotional competence scales developed by Sharma and Bhardwaj (2007), and educational aspirations scales developed by Kumar, T.P. (2012) were used to collect data in this study. In this study, statistical techniques, i.e., multiple regressions and Pearson’s coefficients of correlation were applied. At 0.01 levels, there was found a significant and positive correlation between obedient-disobedient tendency and self-efficacy. On the other hand, between emotional competence and self-efficacy as well as educational aspirations and self-efficacy, the correlation coefficient values respectively (0.001) and (0.046) were not determined to be significant at the level of 0.5 and 0.1 and correlation was very low and negative in nature.On the other hand, based on the calculated t-ratio, it was concluded that the variable obedient-disobedient tendency was the strongest predictor of self-efficacy than emotional competence and educational aspirations in secondary school students.