Self efficacy among nursing students
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2017, Vol 9, Issue 8
Abstract
Background: Perceived self-efficacy is defined as people's beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives. Self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. If students believe in their capabilities, they would use their maximal efforts in different situations. Self-efficacy is vital for nursing students and clinical nurses. Methodology: Cross sectional descriptive survey design was used. All nursing students of College of Nursing, JIPMER were considered as the population of the study. Convenience sampling was used and 341 participants participated. General Self-Efficacy Scale was used to collect the data Results: The study results suggested that the General Self-Efficacy was high among 53.07% of nursing students; remaining 46.92% were having low self-efficacy. An association was found for general self efficacy with socio-demographic variables viz., gender, and year of study. Conclusion: The study concluded that 53.7% of nursing students were having high self and 49.92% of students were having low self efficacy.
Authors and Affiliations
Viswam Athira, Kaviyabala, D. , Sayujya, C. P. , Thakur Varsh and Buvaneswari, R.
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