A Study Of Relationships Among Focus Of Control,Academic Self-efficacy And Learning Autonomy Of College Students

Learning autonomy of college students has always been a focus in psychological research of schools. Particularly under the background of higher education reform, the way to improve the learning autonomy degree of college students becomes a focus for various researches. This research targets at college students, takes the mesomeric effect of academic self-efficacy as the entry point and studies and explores the influence of locus of control on learning autonomy so as to explore a new way to improve the learning autonomy of college students.The object of this research is some college students in Guangdong and Hunan. It adopts the method of cluster random sampling to select the objects. 450 questionnaires are sent out and 375 valid questionnaires are collected with the invalid ones removed. The research tool includes IPC scale of Levenson,the academic self-efficacy scale of Liang Yusong and the college student learning autonomy scale of Yuan Hongmei. Using SPSS19.0 and Amos21.0 statistical software for statistical analysis of the data, the following conclusions are obtained:(1)The score of some dimensions for focus of control,academic self-efficacy and learning autonomy of college students vary with gender, grade and major.(2)The focus of control, academic self-efficacy and learning autonomy of college students correlate with one another obviously. Apparent positive correlation exists within internality, academic self-efficacy and learning autonomy;Internality has forward prediction influence on academicself-efficacy and learning autonomy; Powerful others have apparent negative correlation with academic self-efficacy and learning autonomy; Chance also has apparent negative correlation with academic self-efficacy and learning autonomy and it has negative prediction influence on academic self-efficacy and learning autonomy.(3)The focus of control and academic self-efficacy of college students have prediction influence on learning autonomy with different degrees and it mainly influences learning autonomy through academic self-efficacy. Therefore,we can enhance the learning autonomy of college students by changing their attributional pattern and improving their academic self-efficacy.