The Role of Global Self-Esteem and Academic Self-Efficacy in Students' Academic Achievements

By Wendy Lovell

This book explores the relationship between global self-esteem and academic self-efficacy and their importance in students' concept of themselves and their ability to achieve success academically.  It includes the findings of many researchers in the field of Educational Psychology. 

This book also includes a study of the relationship between global self-esteem and academic self-efficacy of Caribbean university students, done by the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wendy Lovell
• Release date: Aug 21, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386774303

Wendy Lovell

Wendy Lovell is a former Primary school teacher, who has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Education. She has been an avid novel reader since childhood. Ms. Lovell currently lives in Barbados the land of her birth and can be contacted at [e-mail] or on her Facebook page.

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Biography

Wendy Lovell is a former Primary school teacher who has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Education. She is the author of a novel entitled The Sun Shines Again . Ms. Lovell currently lives in Barbados the land of her birth and can be contacted at [e-mail] or on her Facebook page.

Book Description

This book explores the relationship between global self-esteem and academic self-efficacy and their importance in students’ concept of themselves and their ability to achieve success academically.  It includes the findings of many researchers in the field of Educational Psychology. 

This book also includes a study of the relationship between global self-esteem and academic self-efficacy of Caribbean university students, done by the author.

Introduction

Efforts by Educational Psychology researchers, to understand the reasoning behind why some students excel in their academic pursuits, and others do not, is ongoing.  Two concepts that form part of their investigations into the process of academic achievement are global self-esteem and academic self-efficacy.  Many researchers have endorsed the importance of these two concepts in developing academically successful students (Pajares, 2002).

Global self-esteem and academic self-efficacy are thought by Educational Psychologists to be two essential psychological constructs that form part of students’ motivational learning and academic performance (Bandura, 1993).  The concept of self-efficacy is thought to be the most powerful determinant of behavioural change (Bandura, 1977).  Researchers believe that assessing students’ self-beliefs can provide schools with important insight about their pupils’ academic motivation, behaviour, and future choices, since the beliefs students develop in school about their academic capabilities help determine what they do with the knowledge and skills they have learned (Pajares, 2002).

While the concepts of global self-esteem and self-efficacy may be related they have different meanings.  Global self-esteem refers to one’s level of confidence about one’s self, whereas academic self-efficacy refers to one’s level of confidence about one’s ability to perform academically.  There are conflicting views with regard to the relationship between these two concepts in academic circles and among researchers (Pajares, 2002).  Some researchers find a significant positive correlation between the