EFFECTIVENESS OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY INTERVENTION ON SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS AMONG UNDERGRADUATES

Abstract

Self-Efficacy beliefs have a significant influence on persistence, resilience, personal well-being and achievement. The effects of positive psychology intervention in Colleges have received little attention to this. However, since positive psychology intervention offers a focus on the positive aspects of human experience. A quantitative approach was used in a small-scale study of Undergraduates in two primary Colleges. Self-constructed questionnaire was used to gather pre- and post-intervention data. Undergraduates in one College were introduced to aspects of positive psychology and participated in an intervention designed to cause reflection on ‘good things’. Undergraduates in a second College acted as a control group. Findings suggest that efficacy beliefs had been enhanced for Undergraduates who had participated in the intervention, but not in the comparable College where Undergraduates had acted as a control group. Implications and limitations of the study are discussed and suggestions made for future research.