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...

Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to describe the development of a scale designed to measure self-efficacy for information literacy. Design/methodology/approach – Cronbach’s alpha, item analysis and item discrimination indices, principal component analysis, varimax rotation, and discriminant validity were used to measure reliability and validity of the scale. A 28-item refined version of ...

Following from Bandura's (1977a) self-efficacy theory, an Eating SelfEfficacy Scale (ESES) was developed and its psychometric properties established. Factor analysis o f the 25-item scale yielded two reliable factorsone concerned with eating when experiencing negative affect (NA) and the other with eating during socially acceptable circumstances (SAC). The ESES demonstrated good internal consis...

The Sexual Self-Efficacy Scale--Erectile Functioning (SSES-E) is a brief self-report measure of the cognitive dimension of erectile functioning and adjustment in men. It evaluates a man's beliefs about his sexual and erectile competence in a variety of situations. The scale may be completed by a man to obtain self-ratings or by his partner to obtain corroboration. Self-efficacy refers to confid...

ôbjective: self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. regarding to similar findings it is supposed that concept of self efficacy has a general role on mental health. the present study focused on examining the relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression, anxiety, worry and social avoidance in a large sample of normal students (n=549...

the pain anxiety symptoms scale (pass-20) has been developed as a general measure of anxiety and fear in individuals with various chronic pain disorders by mccracken and dhingra (2002). short-form scale of pass-20 has been extracted from 40 items of dass which published in 1992. this study aimed (1) to examine the factor structure of a persian language version of the pass-20 (irpass-20); (2) to...

This study used Rasch methodology to pursue three goals. First, we sought to demonstrate the psychometric limitations of the Falls Efficacy Scale (Tinetti, Richman, & Powell, 1990). Second, we addressed these limitations using a simultaneous calibration of the Falls Efficacy Scale and Mobility Efficacy Scale items. Third, we review previous explorations of the self-efficacy construct in relatio...