Predicting the academic self-efficacy based on personality characteristics and learning styles in girl students of Mashhad city

Subject Areas : Educational Science

Samaneh Sadat Tabatabaei ¹ , Toktan Sadat Tabatabaei ² , Arezo Najibzadegan ³

1 - Assistant Prof, Department of Psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran
2 - Assistant Prof, Department of Psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran
3 - Department of Psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran

Received: 2019-08-13 Accepted : 2019-11-05 Published : 2019-11-22

Keywords: learning styles, academic self-efficacy, personality characteristics, girl students,

Abstract :

Academic self-efficacy plays an important role in academic success, so this study aimed to predict the academic self-efficacy based on personality characteristics and learning styles in girl students. The research method was descriptive-analytical from type of correlation and research statistical population was high school second grade girl students of Mashhad city in academic years of 2018-19. The research sample was 400 people who were selected by multistep cluster sampling method and answered to the questionnaire of academic self-efficacy (Jinks & Morgan, 1999), personality characteristics (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and learning styles (Kolb, 1985). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression with enter model with using SPSS-21 software. The results showed that learning styles of converge, diverge, assimilator and accommodator, extroversion and conscientiousness have a positive and significant relationship with academic self-efficacy of girl students and neuroticism have a negative and significant relationship with their academic self-efficacy. The variables of personality characteristics and learning styles could predict 37/8 percent of variance of academic self-efficacy of girl students (p < 0/05). Based on the results, to increase the academic self-efficacy of girl students can use with assistant workshop increase their learning styles, extroversion and conscientiousness and decrease their neuroticism.