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Title: Self-efficacy, hope and student engagement among university students
Authors: Fayyaz, Aqsa
Keywords: Psychology
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: Quaid I Azam University
Abstract: The present study was designed to investigate the association between self-efficacy, domain specific hope, and student engagement among university students. Some demographic variables like age, gender, education, work status, family system, residential status, mother work status, father work status, and faculty were also catered. Convenient sample (n = 400) comprising of female students (n = 160) and male students (n = 240) was collected from different universities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Instruments used in the present study were General Self-efficacy Scale (Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 1985) as measure of self-efficacy, Domain Specific Hope Scale (Sympson, 1999) as measure of hope, while Student Engagement Scale (Wellbom, 1991) as measure of student engagement. It was indicated that there is a positive relationship between . self-efficacy, domain specific hope, and student engagement. Regression analysis revealed that self-efficacy and hope both came out to be positive predictors of student engagement. Related to gender differences t-test indcate that male students have more social hope as compared to female students. Agentic engagement was reflected higher for students living in joint family system as compared to nuclear family system. Self-efficacy has been reported higher in MPhillPhD students as compared to BS/MSc students. Results of faculty based differences showed that social science students scored higher on overall hope, family hope, social hope, academic hope, leisure hope, student engagement, agentic engagement, behavioral engagement, emotional engagement, and cognitive engagement as compared to natural science students.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/22113
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