RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF -EFFICIENCY AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AMONG ADOLESCENT STUDENTS

Abstract

In recent years, assessing self-efficacy, a learned way of thinking, has emerged as a more widespread cross-cultural technique. In 1977, Albert Bandura published the first description of self-efficacy in the journal Psychological Review under the title "Self-Efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioural Change." The objective of the paper is to find whether there is any significant difference between self-efficiency and among the males and the females and also to find whether there is any significant difference between achievement motivation and among the males and the females. The present study is taking into consideration the school students in the age group of 14 to 17 years. The result of the study was that both the male and female students share similar self-efficacy and that there may be no significant difference in Achievement Motivation between the male and the female students.

Keywords : SELF –EFFICIENCY, ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION