Relationship Between Self-efficacy and Attention using QEEG with Students from IUE

Area of Science:

• Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Cognitive Science

Background:

• Self-efficacy, defined as belief in one's capability to achieve goals, involves planning and task execution.
• Attention is crucial for goal-directed behavior, but its relationship with self-efficacy requires further investigation.
• Understanding this relationship can inform interventions for academic and personal development.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate the role of attention in self-efficacy among university students.
• To explore correlations between self-efficacy, psychometric attention measures, and neurophysiological attention indicators.
• To determine if higher self-efficacy is associated with enhanced attentional performance.

Main Methods:

• Participants (N=25) completed the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSS), Digits and Symbols (DS), and Brief Attention Test (BTA).
• Electroencephalography (EEG) measured the Theta-Beta ratio (TBR) at C3-C4 cerebral cortex points.
• Spearman correlation was used to analyze relationships between self-efficacy, attention measures, and TBR.

Main Results:

• No statistically significant correlation was found between General Self-Efficacy Scale scores and the attention measures (DS, BTA, QEEG).
• A significant negative correlation (r=-.529) was observed between the TBR at C4 (eyes open) and the Digits and Symbols test scores.
• This suggests a link between neurophysiological attention measures and psychometric attention assessments.

Conclusions:

• The study did not find a clear statistically significant relationship between high self-efficacy and high attention levels.
• A significant negative correlation between the DS test and QEEG measures indicates that neurophysiological attention measurement techniques are related to psychometric measurements.
• Further research is warranted to explore the nuanced interplay between self-efficacy, attention, and their neurophysiological underpinnings.