1Community Nursing Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
2Patient Safety Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
3Community Nursing Research Center, Student Research Committee, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
Self-efficacy beliefs can be influenced by the internal factors such as gender-specific differences. Thus, the present study has been conducted with the objective of the investigation of the relationship between the self-efficacy and gender in Urmia medical sciences university students.
The present study is a descriptive analytical research which has been conducted on 378 individuals from Urmia medical sciences university students in 2016 all of whom have been selected based on a random method. To gather the information required for the current study there is mad use of a two-part questionnaire the first part of which is related to the demographic characteristics and the second part pertains to Pintrich's self-efficacy questionnaire. The data extracted through the application of such an abovementioned method were analyzed by means of SPSS ver.19 software, descriptive statistics, Pierson correlation test and independent t-test.
It has been shown in the present study that the participants’ average age was 21.78 ± 3.0 and that 202 individuals were male and 190 individuals were female. The self-efficacy total mean score was 42.04 ± 8.56 among the university students which is regarded to be in an optimum level. The relationship between the age and the self-efficacy total mean score was not found to be statistically significant. The relationship between the gender and the self-efficacy was not statistically significant.
In sum, the results obtained in the present study indicated that the university students’ gender is in a meaningful association with their self-efficacy and it can be deployed for the students’ future accomplishments and advances.
self-efficacy, gender, Urmia
