Gender Differences in Self‐efficacy and Academic Performance among Students of Business Administration

Self-efficacy in intercollegiate athletics.

“…Moreover, participants with high self-efficacy set higher organizational goals and used more efficient analytical strategies than those of the participants with low self-efficacy (Bandura & Wood, 1989). Thus, the statistically significant results of the present study support the previous research related to sport-specific self-efficacy-and, based on previous research (Busch, 1995), can potentially could be applied to non-sport-related self-efficacy. Administrators involved in academia and the business world can utilize the results to shape their future curriculum, protocol, and procedures in effort to increase effectiveness and efficiencies.…”

“…She claimed this was due to both genders possibly experiencing similar levels of trait sport confidence. Busch (1995), who studied self-efficacy as it related to academic performance, found that -except for statistics, where female students outperform their male counterparts, there were no significant gender differences in academic performance‖ (p. 313). One final possible explanation of gender differences in self-confidence is in reporting systems of self-confidence.…”

The analysis of pre-service social studies teachers' academic self-efficacy

“…This finding is parallel with those research findings which end up in favor of men (Fırat Durdukoca, 2010). There are also researchers who have found that men have higher level of academic self-efficacy than women in general (Bong, 1999;Busch, 1995;Schunk & Pajares, 2001). In the study of Huang (2013), researches on gender differences in academic self-efficacy have been summarized.…”

“…Personal information form contains certain variables as gender, grade level, daily study duration, state of regular library use, reason for selecting social studies education and the number of books they read other than the course books after they started the university. For decision of these certain variables, the studies of Bong (1999); Busch (1995) ;Chevalier, Gibbons, Thorpe, Snell and Hoskins (2009) ;Demirtaş, Cömert and Özer (2011);Fırat and Durdukoca (2010);Huang (2013);Oğuz (2012); Schunk and Pajares (2001); Tabancalı and Çelik (2013); Ülper and Bağcı (2012);Yeşilyurt (2013) have been taken into consideration.…”

The importance of context when applying social cognitive theory in organizations

“…Thus, unsurprisingly, Hackett and Betz (1981) found women generally had greater self-efficacy for some traditionally female-oriented occupations such as nursing and social work, than for some traditionally male occupations, such as accountancy and engineering. However, in more recent research involving 154 students of Business Administration at a Norwegian college, after controlling for a number of other general context variables, Busch (1995) found a statistically significant (self-efficacy) gender difference only for computing. One can speculate that the relative novelty of computing in historical terms may explain the rate at which an inbuilt masculine bias in the use of computers (Murphy et al 1989) has been eroded.…”