الفضول المعرفي و علاقته بالكفاءة الذاتية المدركة لدى طلبة جامعة اليرموك

Abstract EN

The study aimed at uncovering the relationship between epistemic curiosity and perceived self-efficacy, in light some variables.

The study sample consisted of (488) students from the students enrolled in the different faculties of the university for the summer semester of the academic year 2016/2017.

To achieve the objectives of the study, two measures were used: The future perspective scale (Voskuilen 2010), and the perceived Self-Efficacy measure used by Alwan (2014).

The results of the study indicated that the level of curiosity and perceived self-efficacy of the study sample was average.

The results showed that there were statistically significant differences in the performance of students on the curiosity scale due to gender in favor males, and regarding specialization in favor of students with scientific specialties, whereas, the level of achievement in favor excellent achievers.

Moreover, the result revealed statistically significant differences in the performance of students on the perceived self-efficacy scale due to the gender in favor of males, and regarding the level of achievement, it came in favor of excellent achievers.