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- Title
Self-Efficacy and the Prediction of Domain-Specific Cognitive Abilities.
- Authors
Paunonen, Sampo V.; Hong, Ryan Y.
- Abstract
We evaluated predictors of performance in 4 specific cognitive ability domains: verbal, numerical, spatial, and mechanical. The predictors were individual differences in self-efficacy beliefs, self-enhancement tendencies, and cross-domain abilities. Our university students' beliefs about their verbal, numerical, and spatial capabilities correlated well with their actual performance on standardized tests (verbal r=.33, numerical r=.27, spatial r=.36). In contrast, the students' self-efficacy for mechanical tasks did relatively poorly in predicting mechanical test performance ( r=.10). Most interesting were two other findings: (a) The best predictor of domain performance was level of cross-domain performance by far, even for mechanical tasks, and (b) self-enhancement tendencies added to cross-domain abilities and self-efficacy beliefs in the prediction of performance. The results are discussed in terms of possible mechanisms explaining how one's score on a maximal performance task can be affected by self-efficacy beliefs and self-enhancement tendencies.
- Subjects
SELF-efficacy; COGNITIVE ability; APPLIED psychology; COLLEGE students; PERFORMANCE tasks (Education); EDUCATION; STANDARDIZED tests; EDUCATIONAL tests &; measurements; PREDICTION (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 2010, Vol 78, Issue 1, p339
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00618.x