The study was designed to estimate the psychometric properties of Hastings and Brown's (2002a) Difficult Behavior Self-efficacy Scale. Participants were two samples of physical educators teaching in Korea (n=229) and the United States (U.S.; n=139). An initial translation of the questionnaire to Korean and pilot study were conducted along with the larger study using a confirmatory factor analys...

The present study was conducted to examine the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of Iranian EFL teachers and also the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of intermediate adult learners individually. To this end, 40 EFL teachers and 55 intermediate adult learners were selected from two branches of Kish Language Institute. In this study, “...

Background: Stress during pregnancy and delivery is associated with unfavorable outcomes, which negatively affects maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the relationship between perceived stress and breastfeeding self-efficacy of women in Zanjan, Iran. Methods: This descriptive- analytical study was performed on 224 pregnant women, who participated in...

background: culturally specific care requires that nursing students know, understand, and identify cultural factors related to client care, and conduct their nursing practice accordingly. the aim of this study was to identify the cultural self-efficacy of baccalaureate nursing students in a greek university. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a transcultural self-efficacy too...

background: hemophilia is a chronic bleeding disease and can interfere with daily performance of children. these children require continuous training to prevent bleeding. since children nurses play an important role in the education of sick children and their self-efficacy and the increase use of educational computer games, the use of educational games for teaching self-efficacy to children wit...

background the world health organization identifies oral health as a necessity for public health through the entirety of life. this issue has been considerably addressed due to susceptibility to tooth decay during pregnancy and maternal and fetal health. results according to the independent t-test, the mean score of knowledge, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, and dmft was not different ...

conclusions students had moderate self-efficacy. several factors such as environment, nursing colleagues, and clinical educators could influence the creation of clinical self-efficacy in nursing students. results in the quantitative part, 58 students completed the self-efficacy questionnaire; the mean score was 219.28 ± 35.8, which showed moderate self-efficacy in students. self-efficacy was di...