A study on the relationship between academic self-efficacy, interpersonal relationship and academic achievement of the students in health vocational college

Abstract

Objective To explore the relationships among academic self-efficacy, relationship and scholastic attainment of students in a health vocational college. Methods By means of the platform named Wenjuanxing, an online questionnaire survey was conducted in May and June 2016 among students of a health vocational college in Sichuan using a survey consisting of two questionnaires, i.e. the academic self-efficacy questionnaire compiled by Yusong Liang & Zongkui Zhou and the comprehensive diagnostic scale for relationships compiled by Richang Zheng. The data from 1 070 students were collected and 1 034 of them (i.e. 96.636%) were valid. SPSS software (release 21.0) was utilized for the statistical analysis. The scores of academic self-efficacy, its two dimensionalities and scholastic attainment were statistically analyzed using one-way ANOVA with the factor interpersonal with three levels. Pearson correlation analysis was used to determine the correlations among academic self-efficacy, relationship and scholastic attainment. Results The detection rate of distress was 49.613%; for academic self-efficacy, learning ability self-efficacy and scholastic attainment of students, there were significantly differences among the groups with distress free, some distress and more distress (F values were 8.397, 25.005 and 4.462 while P values were 0.000, 0.000 and 0.012 for the three type of scores respectively). There were significantly negative correlations between academic self-efficacy or learning ability self-efficacy and relationship or its four dimensionalities (r=-0.106 to-0.226, P=0.000 to 0.001); there was a significantly positive correlation between academic self-efficacy or learning ability self-efficacy and scholastic attainment (r=0.181, P=0.000 and r=0.225, P=0.000); while there was a significantly negative correlation between scholastic attainment and each of relationship, the way of getting along with people and talking (r=-0.079 to-0.117, P=0.000 to 0.012). Conclusion The academic self-efficacy of students in the Health Vocational College is at medium level, and that many students have problems. Since academic self-efficacy, relationship and scholastic attainment influence and promote each other, we need to pay attention to improving students' academic self-efficacy and conditions of distress in order to promote the establishment of harmonious relationships and improve students' self-confidence and scholastic attainment in the daily teaching activities by systematic design and comprehensive training. Key words: Academic self-efficacy; Interpersonal relationship; Scholastic attainment; Corre-lation; Health vocational college