The Adolescents’ Self-efficacy Dimensions in Different Family Types Based on the Contextual Family Process and Content Model

Subject Areas : Psychological Models and Methods

S. Chenari ¹ ()
F. Yousefi ² ()

Received: 2015-06-16 Accepted : 2015-06-16 Published : 2015-05-22

Keywords: Social Self-Efficacy, Contextual Family Process and Content Model, academic self-efficacy, Emotional Self-Efficacy,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the adolescents’ self-efficacy dimensions in different Family types in the Contextual family Process and Content (FPC) model. The sample of the study included 590 (282 boys; 308 girls) high school students from first to third grades in Shiraz City, that were selected by multi-stage random sampling method in the 1392-93 academic year. To collect the data, Moris’ questionnaire of self-efficacy dimensions (2001), Karwowski’s questionnaire of creative self-efficacy (2010), Self-report Family Process Scale (Samani, 2008) and Self-report Family Content Scale (Samani, 2008) were applied. To compare the different dimensions of self-efficacy in four types of family, the Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) test was used. The result indicated that family types had significant effect on academic self-efficacy, emotional self-efficacy and social self-efficacy, but family types didn’t show significant effect on adolescents’ creative self-efficacy. Moreover, the findings cleared that children of healthy families had higher rate of academic, social and emotional self-efficacy. In contrast, unhealthy families’ children showed a low rate of academic self-efficacy and social self-efficacy, and children of content problematic families had lower rate of emotional self-efficacy