Influence of Self-Efficacy on Elementary Students' Writing  

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Pajares, Frank ; Valiante, Gio

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: JER: Journal of Educational Research, The vol. 90 no. 06 (Jul. 1997), page 353-360.

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J6 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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ABSTRACT Path analysis was used to test the influence of writing self-efficacy, writing apprehension, perceived usefulness of writing, and writing aptitude on the essay-writing performance of 218 fifth-grade students. A model that also included sex accounted for 64 % of the variance in performance. As hypothesized, self-efficacy beliefs made an independent contribution to the prediction of performance despite the expected powerful effect of writing aptitude. Aptitude also had a strong direct effect on self-efficacy, which mediated the indirect effect of aptitude on performance. Self-efficacy had direct effects on apprehension and perceived usefulness. Girls and boys did not differ in perform2nce, but girls reported higher writing self efficacy, found writing more useful, and had lower apprehension. Results support the hypothesized role of self-efficacy in Bandura's (1986) social cognitive theory.

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