Self-Efficacy and Interest as Synergistic Mechanisms of Personal Agency: A Social Cognitive View
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
4-21-2020
Publication Title
American Educational Research Association
First page number:
1
Last page number:
1
Abstract
Although social cognitive theories (e.g., SCCT) posits that person factors, such as self-efficacy and interest, should interact in predicting salient outcome, the empirical status of such multiplicative effects remains unresolved largely due to a scholarly preoccupation with additive-effects models. We proposed and tested an interaction effects model in which science self-efficacy and interest were specified to interact in their effect on science achievement. Drawing on data from almost 6000 secondary school students, support was found for a synergistic interaction effects model. Above and beyond first-order effects, self-efficacy and interest showed a synergistic interaction, such that the positive self-efficacy-achievement association was enhanced under conditions of high interest. Notably, the model was found to generalize across females and males.
Keywords
Social cognitive theories; Self-efficacy; Interaction effect model; Data collection; Synergistic interaction
Disciplines
Categorical Data Analysis | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics and Probability
Language
English
Repository Citation
Perera, H.,
McIlveen, P.,
Miller, C. J.,
Part, R.,
Loures-Elias, A. P.
(2020).
Self-Efficacy and Interest as Synergistic Mechanisms of Personal Agency: A Social Cognitive View.
American Educational Research Association
1-1.