objective: the present study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of two therapeutic approaches, namely, cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) and stages of change model (soc) on improving abstinence self-efficacy in adolescent addicts. methods: forty five self-referred adolescent addicts were randomly selected to take part in this study. initial assessment was made using the following quest...

the concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...

objective: the present study aimed to review the relationships between procrastination and two self-factors self-efficacy and self-esteem. methods: participants were 140 undergraduates psychology students enrolled in mohagheg ardabili university, ardabil, iran. instruments used for collecting the required data were the student-version of the general procrastination scale (gp-s), general self-ef...

This article discusses the relation of self-efficacy to motivation and performance in cognitive and sport domains, Self-efficacy refers to one's beliefs about accomplishing a task and can influence choice of activities, effort, persistence, and achievement. People enter activities with varying levels of self-efficacy derived fund prior experience, personal qualities, and social support. As they...

Reconstructability analysis (RA) is a method for detecting and analyzing the structure of multivariate categorical data. Jones and his colleagues extended the original variablebased formulation of RA to encompass models defined in terms of system states (Jones 1982; Jones 1985; Jones 1985; Jones 1986; Jones 1989). In this paper, we demonstrate that Jones’ previous work comprises two separable i...

This paper discusses the role of individuals’ beliefs about their abilities to competently use computers (computer self-efficacy) in the determination of computer use. A survey of Canadian managers and professionals was conducted to develop and validate a measure of computer self-efficacy and to assess both its impacts and antecedents. Computer selfefficacy was found to exert a significant infl...