Developmental Characteristics Of High School Students' Academic Self-efficacy And Related Study Of Its Relationship With Academic Achievements And The Style Of Parental Upbringing

Self- efficacy refers to a kind of self-consciousness, that people have about their abilities. It means people believe the skills they mastered can insure them at efficiently in some specific tasks. Self-efficacy of study refers to their expectations and judgments about whether they have the ability to accomplish study tasks or reach study goals. Self-efficacy has a quite close connection with students' study achievement, and it is a very important factor that influences students' study achievement. Present researches indicate that students can have better study achievement and develop better psychologically of they have strong sense of self-efficacy of study. The development of self-efficacy of study can be influenced by congenital factors, internal factors and external factors as well. Among them, family factors and study achievement influence the development of self-efficacy remarkably. Present appraisals on self-efficacy of study are weak in some aspects and there aren't enough research on the characteristics of middle school students' self-efficacy of study. So this research revised foreign MJSES questionnaire, and used it to explore the characteristics of middle school students' self-efficacy of study, and analyzed the relationship between self-efficacy and study achievements, family education.