The Effect of Six Months Psychological Skill Training Program on Self Efficacy

INTRODUCTION

According to Bandura (1997) self-efficacy is the ―beliefs in one‘s capabilities to organise and execute the courses of action required producing given attainments‖.Bandura (1997) supported that self-efficacy plays a key role in the development of human achievements and motivations. Bandura‘s work strongly supports the notion that human‘s behaviours, their motivations as well as the outcome of their actions (success or failure) are the product of their self-efficacy. Psychological skills are internal capabilities that help people to control their mind efficiently and consistently while achieving goals. Hardy and Nelson (1996) stated that imagery, mental preparedness, self-confidence, anxiety, relaxation and concentration are important in life. So keeping in mind the important role of Psychological Skill Training program to develop Self Efficacy. The obtained result indicated that students have improved their self efficacy after undergoing the structured Psychological skill Training (PST) Program.

The objective of the study was to find out the effect of a six months psychological skill training (PST) program on Self efficacy.

A total of 40 (forty) students from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, age ranged 12-14 years at 7th standard were randomly selected for the study and voluntary permission was taken from the subjects.

A validated questionnaire- Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES; Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 1995).

A PST program for 6 months, 4 sessions a months, 1 sessions a week of 30-40 min for each child and total of 24 sessions was developed to develop the selected variables i.e. anxiety, Concentration, imagery, goal setting, motivation and relaxation of the participants. A variety of exercises under each factor were selected to ensure the progression of training throughout the training program of 6 months. The selected training items were planned and administer to have an impact on the self efficacy of the children. To finalization the Psychological Skill Training Program various expert advices was taken. Psychological Skill Training Program: Psychological skill training program on various factors was administered for 6 months, 4 sessions a month, 1 session a week of 30-40 min each and total of 24 sessions for each child. Self-Efficacy Questionnaire was filled at two stages Pre data before starting the psychological skill training program then again for post data after finishing the training program.

In this study paired t-test was used to compare the effect of six months Psychological Skill Training program on self efficacy of school children. The level of significance was set at 0.05.

RESULTS

This presents the findings on the effect of Psychological Skill Training Program on Self Efficacy, on the basis of pre and post test conducted. Findings are presented in table no 1

The paired t-test analysis was computed to check whether there was any statistical significant difference between pre and post Self Efficacy scores. Result is shown below in table 2.

Table 2 shows that the obtained paired value of Self Efficacy scores in pre and post training. As the calculated t value (-15.38) was noted to be higher than the tabulated P value (.001) the pre test and

The present study concludes that there was a significance difference found due to six months Psychological Skill Training (PST) program on Self Efficacy. The obtained result indicated that when students go through specific psychological skill training program to get better results in Self Efficacy. Since SPSS provides significance value of two-tailed testing no more conclusions can be drawn about Psychological Skill Training of Self Efficacy. However to conclude the Psychological Skill Training Program was effective or not, One-tail test should be used. Where null hypothesis may be rejected and it can be concluded that Psychological skill Training program was Effective on Self Efficacy.

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Research Scholar, ASPESS, Amity University, Noida, India sonal.sudhakar@student.amity.edu