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Social cognitive theorists and self-regulation theorists have disagreed about whether self-efficacy can have a negative effect on students’ effort and performance. Despite robust positive relationships found between self-efficacy and student performance, recent research has shown that self-efficacy negatively affects students’ efforts, which can adversely affect performance. This study focuses on assessing the generalizability of the theoretical approaches to international students by comparing the effects of self-efficacy, effort, and performance in international and American students. Participants were asked to complete four waves of questions regarding their self-efficacy, effort, and performance toward exams that they had the past week or were going to have in the coming week. The findings showed that self-efficacy levels prior to the exam negatively affected the number of hours that students planned to study and status in the US did not moderate the relationship, implying the effect generalizes. |
