Social self-efficacy and the effect on undergraduates life satisfaction

The shift from teenage years to adulthood can be a challenging journey for many. The transition to maturity comes with the adaption of new social roles, academic goals and deciding on a chosen profession (Gautam and Madnawat, 2017). Students Life satisfaction can be described as a general feeling of wellbeing, if an individual is happy with their life and its circumstances (Scheufele & Shah, 2000). Social self-efficacy is a topic that has not revived much attention in the literature, it is the ability to create and maintain relationships and participate in a social activity (Smith & Betz, 2002). The current research aimed at viewing the effects that social self-efficacy and year of study has on participants (N=84) life satisfaction. A two way between group ANOVA was conducted to see if a significant difference was shown between the variables. Results indicated a significant result for Social self-efficacy. Individuals with greater Social self-efficacy showed higher in life satisfaction. No significance was found for Year of study. The current study highlighted the effect social self-efficacy has on life satisfaction this information can be quite valuable for universities implementing first year adjustment programmes, aimed at increasing social self-efficacy to ease the transition from secondary to third level education.</p

Additional file 1: of The effect of using social pressure in cover letters to improve retention in a longitudinal health study: an embedded randomised controlled retention trial

Full text of the covering letters sent with the CLASSIC questionnaires. (PDF 66 kb