PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

Research found that self-efficacy has an important role in the development of students’ career cognitive skills. Besides, there still needs further research self-efficacy, particularly readiness. The authors conduct this continuing study is to determine effect understanding perceived on student’s awareness readiness (mastery experience, vicarious social persuasion, and emotional arousal). Data ...

This paper aims to present the relevance of Foucault’s technology self face future post-coronavirus world. The significance Foucault lies in practice self-forming where pandemic era has urged humans evaluate their subjectivity. It is because subject faced with external challenge biopolitics state as well internal Subject’s anxiety. Hence, this study tries respond these problems by analyzing Fou...

Teacher self-efficacy (TSE) is associated with a multitude of positive outcomes for teachers and students. However, the development of TSE is an under-researched area. Bandura (1997) proposed four sources of self-efficacy: mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and physiological and affective states. This study introduces a first instrument to assess the four sources for...

A number of studies have shown that mastery experiences strengthen self-efficacy expectancies that are specific to the mastery situation. In this study I assessed the effects of cognitive-behavioral coping skills training on generalized expectancies concerning self-efficacy and locus of control in test-anxious college students. Compared with a waiting-list control group, the trained subjects ex...

Boxed Ego is a double trap for the Self. A peep-show box waiting in a corner of the exhibition space first captures the curiosity of the observer and then the observer himself. Although of an artistic flavor, from the research perspective this work is a preliminary experiment on the cognitive (and possible practical) aspects of artificial autoscopy (AS). In order to understand how artificial au...

OBJECTIVE Many persons with schizophrenia experience poor insight or reflexive unawareness of the symptoms and consequences of their illness and, as a result, are at risk for treatment nonadherence and a range of negative outcomes. One recent theory regarding the origins of poor insight in schizophrenia has suggested that it may result, in part, from deficits in metacognitive capacity, or the a...

In the present study, we explore the similarity between company versus self-reported reasons for job loss. We also examine the degree of perceived control employees report over the job loss, looking to see if either job loss type or perceived control is related to subsequent levels of mastery and depression. As part of a larger study, 2279 of 3700 (61%) employees responded to a survey at Time 1...

The purpose of this small pilot study was three-fold: (a) to begin development of a coding scheme for supervisor and therapist skill acquisition, (b) to preliminarily investigate a pilot train-the-trainer paradigm for skill development, and (c) to evaluate self-reported versus observed indicators of skill mastery in that pilot program. Participants included four supervisor-therapist dyads (N = ...