What is a general self-efficacy scale?

The General Self-Efficacy Scale is a 10-item psychometric scale that is designed to assess optimistic self-beliefs to cope with a variety of difficult demands in life.

What is a self-efficacy questionnaire?

The Strengths Self-Efficacy Scale (SSES) by Tsai, Chaichanasakul, Zhao, Flores & Lopez, (2014) is a questionnaire that measures someone’s self-belief in their ability to build a sense of personal strength as they apply it to their day-to-day life.

How do you measure self-efficacy scale?

The General Self-Efficacy Scale is correlated to emotion, optimism, work satisfaction. Negative coefficients were found for depression, stress, health complaints, burnout, and anxiety. The total score is calculated by finding the sum of the all items.

How is the general self-efficacy scale used?

The response options are presented along a 4-point Likert-type scale for each item. A total score, on a scale of 10 to 40, or a mean scale score, on a scale of 1 to 4, can be calculated. Higher scores indicate higher perceived general self-efficacy, lower scores indicate lower perceived general self-efficacy.

What is the best self-efficacy scale?

One of the best know scales for this is the generalized self efficacy scale (GSE) by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1995), but note that there are well known alternatives as well, such as the NGSE (Chen et al., 2001) and the SGCSE (Sherer et al., 1982).

What factors affect self-efficacy?

Key factors affecting self-efficacy include:

  • Positive, mastery experiences that give students a sense of accomplishment when they have faced a challenge,
  • Positive, vicarious experiences that occur when students see others succeed and feel an increased sense of their own ability to succeed,

What are the 5 influences of self-efficacy?

Early research evidence shows that there are factors that influence self-efficacy, namely; mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion and psychology arousal.

What can reduce self-efficacy?

Once strong self-efficacy is developed from one’s own personal successes, an occasional failure may not have negative effects; however, self-efficacy based on observing others succeed will diminish rapidly if observers subsequently have unsuccessful experiences of their own.

What is the most important source of increasing self-efficacy?

“Mastery experiences are the most influential source of efficacy information because they provide the most authentic evidence of whether one can muster whatever it takes to succeed. Success builds a robust belief in one’s personal efficacy.