EVALUATION OF 5 DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF SELF-EFFICACY OF ADOLESCENTS BASED ON GENDER

Abstract

The adolescent age experience numerous emotions such as frustration, anxiety, conflicts, worries and peer pressure. These emotions force the students to lose faith in themselves and hence leads to poor decision power. Therefore, it is mandatory for a youth to have develop strong self-efficacy in order to face the challenges of the life in a positive way. The research was aimed to evaluate the self-efficacy of students of secondary school based on the gender. A pilot study of 35 students was done to investigate the self-efficacy of boys and girls in the CBSE school of district Karnal. For collecting the responses, the scale developed by Dr S. Dhaiya and N. Kumari (2018) (Student self-efficacy scale), was used and quantitative study was done by applying t-test. The findings suggest that there is no such significant difference between the self-efficacy of the girls and boys. Moreover, self-efficacy score of girls was found low as compared to boys. Moreover, the score of girl’s self-efficacy falls under the category of low self-efficacy, as compared to that of boys which falls under the category of average self-efficacy. These studies will help the educators and policymakers to design such kind of educational activities which will help the students to improve their self-efficacy scores which can eventually give a positive direction towards their life.

Keywords:  Social emotional learning, Secondary School Students, Self-Efficacy.