Global self-esteem and self-efficacy correlates: Relation of academic achievement and self-esteem among Emirati students

Abstract

We investigated the relationships between global self-esteem, academic self-efficacy and academic performanceamong a sample of 255 college students in the United Arab Emirates. The widely used Rosenberg's Self-EsteemScale (RSES; Rosenberg, 1965) and an academic self-efficacy scale, modified from (Jinks and Morgan, 1999) wereused to assess student's self-esteem and their academic self-efficacy. Each student's average grade for themid-semester and final semester was used as the performance measure. Confirmatory factor analyses using Analysisof Moment Structures (AMOS) version 18 performed on the scores of the RSES revealed two factors (positive andnegative self-esteem) as hypothesized. Correlated results indicated significant relationships between globalself-esteem and academic self-efficacy. Also academic achievement was associated with having high academicself-efficacy.