Self-Efficacy as a Predictor of Academic Motivation and Life Satisfaction on Vocational Training Students with Guaranteed Job

Abstract

Individual perceptions and beliefs play a critical role in how people think, feel and behave. Self-efficacy can affect a lot of cognitive process of human endeavor. By determining the beliefs, people decide their power to affect situations. And this determination influence not only the power a person actually has to face challenges but also the choices a person is most likely to make competently (Dixon et al.,2014; Chesnut and Burley, 2015;). People have goals in this life, and some of them are so common such as success, happiness, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. From the education life to the business life there are always graded objectives. In education life, the main goals are completing the education and finding a good job. So, if the education has a job guarantee, it can provide motivation about finish the education. And this hope with self-efficacy can affect all feelings about life. From this point of view, the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of self-efficacy on motivation and life satisfaction in vocational education which includes employment guarantee. Vocational education students feel like a worker more than others because of the job guarantee and the nature of technical education. So this situation makes them a good sample for this research. They choose being part of business life with applied training, when they are students, so they determine the life and career path already now. All 152 students take part in the survey which includes 23 items for self-efficacy, 22 items for academic motivation, 5 items for life satisfaction and 16 questions for demographic factors. According to the results, there are positive effects of self- efficacy and it’s sub-dimensions on motivation and it’s sub-dimensions (R=0,426; Adjusted R²=17,6) and life satisfaction (R=0,422; Adjusted R²=17,3) for this sample.