A Study Of Self- Efficacy Among Urban And Rural College Students

Abstract

In this paper, the investigator explicitly the self- efficacy among urban and rural college students. Education is an activity or a process, which transforms the behavior of a person from “instinctive behavior” to human behavior. Education is the deliberate and systematic influence, exerted by the mature person, upon immature through instruction, discipline and harmonious development of physical, intellectual and social needs and directed towards the union of the educed with this creator as the end.  Bandura argued that people’s expectation of mastery and achievement and their own determine the types of behavior they will engage in and the amount of list they will undertake. To find out the level of Self- Efficacy of B.Ed. Trainees is the aim of the study. The investigator has randomly selected 41 B.Ed. trainees of  Dr.Ganesh Dass D.A.V. College of Education for Women, Karnal, Haryana for the present study. The sampling  technique used is the random sampling method. It is inferred from that there is no significant relationship between Self- Efficacy and locality.  A standardized questionnaire was used for the collection of data where the scale has thirty items with a  5-point rating scale each in four dimensions: self-confidence, efficacy expectation, positive attitude, outcome expectation.