“…Furthermore, writing self-efficacy was reported to be linked with motivational factors that were themselves related to writing performance, such as anxiety (Pajares & Johnson, 1996;Pajares & Valiante, 1999, 2001Woodrow, 2011;Li & Liu, 2013;Sabti, Rashid, Nimehchisalem, & Darmi, 2019), motivation (Pajares, 2003;Walker, Greene, & Mansell, 2006;Zhang & Guo, 2012), goal orientation (Schunk & Swartz, 1993;Pajares et al, 2000;Li & Xu, 2014;Teng, Sun, & Xu, 2018) and self-regulation (Zimmerman & Bandura, 1994;Bruning et al, 2013;Csizér & Tankó, 2015;Han & Hiver, 2018;Qiu & Lee, 2020;Sun & Wang, 2020;Teng & Zhang, 2020). It was shown that self-efficacious writers were more confident and motivated (Zhang & Guo, 2012), experienced less apprehension, possessed stronger effort, greater perseverance and resilience, and greater interest in and attention to writing (Pajares, 2003;Woodrows, 2011).…”