Relationship Between the Feeling of Self-Efficacy and Students' Perceived University Work
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This study verified whether there is a relationship between the feeling of self-efficacy and perceived academic work on the one hand, and between the feeling of self-efficacy and gender and age on the other hand among students at the University of Lomé in Togo. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire of socio-demographic information and Schwarzer's (1993) Self-Efficacy Scale were submitted to 527 willing and consenting students. The data collected were subjected to statistical processing using SPSS 21 software. The results show that students' feeling of self-efficacy is related to their age and perceived academic work. Despite an average score for girls on the SPSS slightly higher than for boys, the feeling of self-efficacy did not vary significantly by gender.References
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