The General Self-Efficacy Scale: Multicultural Validation Studies
2005/09/01 by Aleksandra Luszczynska, Aleksandra Łuszczyńska, Urte Scholz +1 · 1,891 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Behavioral Health and Interventions #COVID-19 and Mental Health #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Competence (human resources) #Construct validity #Coping (psychology) #Developmental psychology #Medicine #Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports #Population #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychometrics #Scale (ratio) #Self-efficacy #Social cognitive theory #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.3200/jrlp.139.5.439-457
published in The Journal of Psychology 139(5), 439-457 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2005/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
General self-efficacy is the belief in one's competence to cope with a broad range of stressful or challenging demands, whereas specific self-efficacy is constrained to a particular task at hand. Relations between general self-efficacy and social cognitive variables (intention, implementation intentions, outcome expectancies, and self-regulation), behavior-specific self-efficacy, health behaviors, well-being, and coping strategies were examined among 1,933 respondents in 3 countries: Germany (n = 633), Poland (n = 359), and South Korea (n = 941). Participants were between 16 and 86 years old, and some were dealing with stressful situations such as recovery from myocardial events or tumor surgery. Perceived self-efficacy was measured by means of the General Self-Efficacy Scale (R. Schwarzer & M. Jerusalem, 1995). Meta-analysis was used to determine population effect sizes for four sets of variables. Across countries and samples, there is consistent evidence for associations between perceived self-efficacy and the variables under study confirming the validity of the psychometric scale. General self-efficacy appears to be a universal construct that yields meaningful relations with other psychological constructs.
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