Self-efficacy has occupied the research space due to the relevance it holds as an explanatory
mechanism of human performance to understand the characteristics of the population, the study analyzed
the differentiation of beliefs of self-efficacy of university professors who teach in the health area according
to gender, marital status, age, seniority at work, religion and training graduate academic. A cross sectional and quantitative study was attended by 189 university professors working in a private university
in northeastern Brazil. The differentiation indicate that Women perceive themselves more self-effective in
the elaboration of didactic strategies to favor interaction in class; older teachers consider themselves more
effective in didactic strategies for the planning of classes and postdoctoral teachers stood out for the
higher sense of self-efficacy regarding didactic strategies for class planning, didactic strategies to actively
implicate students and didactic strategies to favor interaction in class. Self-efficacy as an explanatory
mechanism of human performance is determinant and therefore it is important to be enhanced in university
professors for the pursuit of a higher quality of teaching-learning of future health professionals.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio