Impact of Self-Efficacy on Psychological Well-Being among Undergraduate Students

The present investigation was carried out to study the impact of Self-efficacy on Psychological Well-being among undergraduate students. The sample consisted of 100 (50 Male and 50 Female) students selected from the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. In order to collect the requisite data, General Self-Efficacy Scale (S. Sud, Schwarzer and Jerusalum, 1995) and Psychological Well-being (Carol Ryff, 1989) was used to study the mentioned problem Simple Linear Regression was used analysis impact the self efficacy on psychological well being among undergraduate students. The findings of the present study show that, correlation between Selfefficacy and Psychological Well-being among Male students was found R = .596 and actual contribution of predictor variable to criterion variable was found to be 35.6% whereas among Female students correlation between Self-efficacy and Psychological Well-being was found R = .551 and actual contribution of predictor variable to criterion variable was found to be 30.4%. Further t-test was applied between Self-efficacy as well as Psychological Well-being of both groups, where it was found that there was insignificant difference between Self-efficacy of Male and Female students but a significant difference was found between Psychological well-being of both groups.