The relationship between family function and personality traits with general self-efficacy (parallel samples studies)
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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The relationship between family function and personality traits with general selfefficacy (parallel samples studies) Ali Zakiei1, Hosna Vafapoor2, Mostafa Alikhani3, Vahid Farnia3 and Farnaz Radmehr3*
Abstract Background: General Self-efficacy is a key variable in clinical, educational, social, developmental, health and personality psychology that can affect the outcomes of people’s lives. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between family functions and personality traits with general self-efficacy among university students and the general population. Methods: To conduct this two-part study, the first part was carried out on a sample of 500 students, and in the second part the study was repeated on a larger sample consisting of 1000 participants from the general population data were collected from the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE), Family Assessment Device (FAD), and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R). The analysis was performed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Fisher’s z test and regression analysis. Results: The results of the present study revealed that all the subscales of family functions and all personality traits are significantly related to general self-efficacy among university students and general population (p < 0.001). But in the general population, there was no significant correlation between openness to experience with general self-efficacy) (p > 0.05). Furthermore, the results of regression analysis showed subscales of family functions and all personality traits together can predict 27 and 35% of the variance in general self-efficacy among university students and the general population, respectively. Conclusion: Personality traits play a role in predicting general self-efficacy, but the personality trait of conscientiousness plays a greater role than other personality traits and also compared to family functioning, personality traits play a greater role in predicting general self-efficacy. Keywords: General self-efficacy, Personality traits, Family functions
Background General self-efficacy is one of the interesting psychological issues for researchers. So that some consider self-efficacy as an important precondition for self-management in the process [1]. Some researchers have shown that general self-efficacy is an important predicting factor for academic achievement at various levels of education [2]. * Correspondence: [email protected] 3 Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Furthermore, self-efficacy is one of the factors influencing health promotion, for example, it has an important role in reducing high-risk behaviors leading to HIV [3–5]. Moreover, it is also associated with behaviors such as oral health behaviors and smoking [6, 7]. On the other hand, its relationship with depression, anxiety, and other mental health indicators have also been confirmed [8–10
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