García-Álvarez Diego, Cobo-Rendón Rubia, Lobos Karla
Departamento de Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela.
Centro de Estudios de Psicología, Universidad de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 4;15:1490095. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1490095. eCollection 2024.
Positive psychology has introduced the concept of character strengths, which are positive traits fundamental to well-being and mental health. Research on university students has shown that these strengths impact psychoeducational variables and personal functioning, acting as a protective factor in the general and student populations. This study aims to analyze the predictive relationships between character strengths and general self-efficacy and determine their joint contribution in predicting academic self-efficacy. The study was quantitative, correlational-causal, and cross-sectional, using a non-probabilistic sample of 668 Venezuelan university students (68.86% women, average age of 20.52 years). The scales used are Growing Strong to measure character strengths, the General Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Self-Efficacy Scale in Specific Academic Situations. All scales showed adequate psychometric properties. The mediation analysis revealed that leadership, hope, and persistence positively influence general and academic self-efficacy. Furthermore, general self-efficacy strongly impacts academic self-efficacy. In conclusion, character strengths are significant predictors of self-efficacy in university students. Promoting these strengths may be crucial to improving general and academic self-efficacy, suggesting the need to implement specific initiatives in higher education.
积极心理学引入了性格优势的概念，这些优势是幸福和心理健康的基本积极特质。对大学生的研究表明，这些优势会影响心理教育变量和个人功能，在普通人群和学生群体中起到保护因素的作用。本研究旨在分析性格优势与一般自我效能感之间的预测关系，并确定它们在预测学业自我效能感方面的共同作用。该研究是定量、相关因果和横断面研究，使用了668名委内瑞拉大学生的非概率样本（68.86%为女性，平均年龄20.52岁）。使用的量表包括用于测量性格优势的《茁壮成长量表》、《一般自我效能量表》和《特定学术情境下的自我效能量表》。所有量表均显示出良好的心理测量学特性。中介分析表明，领导力、希望和毅力对一般自我效能感和学业自我效能感有积极影响。此外，一般自我效能感对学业自我效能感有强烈影响。总之，性格优势是大学生自我效能感的重要预测因素。促进这些优势对于提高一般自我效能感和学业自我效能感可能至关重要，这表明有必要在高等教育中实施具体举措。
