The Survey of the Self-efficacy among Urmia Medical Sciences University Students in 2016

Self-efficacy is a highly effective individual behavior and the person enjoying a high level of self-efficacy is found more successful and more hopeful in fulfilling duties and tasks. Thus, the present study aims at the survey of the self-efficacy among the city of Urmia medical sciences university students.

The present study is an analytical-descriptive research which was conducted on 349 medical sciences university students in the city of Urmia in 2016. The data collection tool has been a two part questionnaire the first part of which pertained to the demographic characteristics and the second part was related to an academic efficacy scale which was proposed by Pintrich et al. In the end, the data were analyzed by taking advantage of SPSS 19 and descriptive statistics, Pierson correlation, independent t-test and variance analysis.

the results obtained by the present study indicated that the individuals’ average age was 21.83 ± 3.12 years of age and that 141 individuals were girls. There was a significant relationship found between the department place of education and the individuals’ self-efficacy mean score, but it was also discovered that there existed no significant relationship between the self-efficacy and the students’ age. The students’ selfefficacy total mean scores were found to be in a range of 41.83 ± 8.54 which is regarded as optimum. Also, 14 individuals scored a weak level of self-efficacy, 122 individuals enjoyed medium self-efficacy and 243 individuals had a high level of self-efficacy.

It was shown in the present study that the students’ self-efficacy is in an optimum level but it still has rooms to be farther improved.