SELF EFFICACY AND FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION IN COLLEGE STUDENTS

Abstract

The title of study was “Self Efficacy and Fear of Negative Evaluation in college students” , the variables used were ‘Self Efficacy ’ and ‘Fear of Negative Evaluation ’ , quantitative methodology was used to examine the relationship between these variables , the data were collected from young adults of 18 - 25 years pursuing under-graduation and post-graduation in different colleges across Kerala , sample consisted of 132 college students who were selected by probability random sampling with equal number of male and female samples (66) each and their mean age was found to be 20 years , tools used were Brief FNE scale ( Fear of Negative Evaluation) developed by Leary in 1983 and SES scale ( Self Efficacy Scale) developed by Mark Sherer , James E . Maddux , Blaise Mercandante and was analysed with SPSS Software Version 25 for correlation analysis and a positive correlation was found between the variables - Self Efficacy and Fear of Negative Evaluation with Spearman’s correlation coefficient was found to be 0.429 at 0.01 level of significance , which indicates a significant relation between the above two variables.