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Influence of Self-Efficacy on Elementary Students' Writing
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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 performance, 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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- Pajares, F., & Valiante, G.
- Venue
- The Journal of Educational Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1997-07
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 353-360
- ISSN
- 0022-0671 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-0675
- OpenAlex
- W2071108999
- Cited by
- 423
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 9.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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