The relation between cognitive flexibility and academic, social and emotional self-efficacy beliefs among adolescents

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the relation between cognitive flexibility and the academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy beliefs of adolescents. For this purpose, data was collected from 270 high school student adolescents (163 female, 107 male, X age=16.00, ss=1.11). The cognitive flexibility scale and the adolescent self-efficacy expectation scale were used. According to the first finding obtained, while the cognitive flexibility, academic self-efficacy, and social self-efficacy beliefs did not differentiate according to sex, the emotional self-efficacy scores differentiated in favour of males. Second, significant relations in positive terms were obtained between cognitive flexibility and academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy beliefs. Lastly, emotional and social self-efficacy beliefs were found to predict cognitive flexibility scores in a significant way.