Self Efficacy Essay

Mothers’ Self Efficacy In Relation to Child Literacy
Dazie Grave
Lone Star College Cyfair

The article defines Self-Efficacy (SE) as a person belief in his/her ability to perform a particular behavior successfully. Researcher suggests mothers’ self-efficacy (MSE) can be directly linked to the increase or decline of a child language development (Albarran & Reich, 2013). This theory is explored by observing 2 factors, perceived barriers and parents’ knowledge and exposure to reading material concerning child development. There are 3 barrier discussed in these article’s. Parent centered barrier looks at the particular situation that would prevent or in decrease a parent from interacting with a child i.e. being too tire, having to work, or just being too busy. Child –centered barriers focus on the child lack of interest in any particular task i.e. being fussy, tired or just not being interested. The last barrier is structural; this particular barrier looks at environment factor that should possible effect (MSE) i.e. nosy back ground, and little exposure to reading material (Lin, Reich, Kataoka, & Farkas, 2015). There are

The control group did not receive any books at all (Albarran & Reich, 2013). Perceived barriers in relation to (MSE) participants were asked, “What are some things that make it hard to read to your baby?” and provided a “Yes /No” answer key for their response. Studies were also measured by using Logistic regression in relation to self-efficacy along with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) multiple regressions (Lin, Reich, Kataoka, & Farkas, 2015).In addition a third OLS multiple regression was used with mothers’ reading (SA) as the predictor variable and total barriers (Lin, Reich, Kataoka, & Farkas,