Self-efficacy among Football Players between 16-19 Years

Year 2017, Volume 5 - Issue 2, 87 - 94, 30.06.2017

Kenioua Mouloud , Boumesjed Abd Elkader

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to know the level of self-efficacy and to investigate selfefficacy
of football players in different playing positions. The sample consisted of male
amateur football players (N =61) between the age 16 and 19 years. General self-efficacy
scale-schwarzer (GSES) was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics and kruskal-wallis test
were applied in order to evaluate data. The results indicated that there was high self-efficacy
among football players. No statistically significant difference found in football players’ selfefficacies
according to their playing positions. Future qualitative researches which would
cover tests including multi-variables on self- efficacy and other psychological characteristics
should be performed in order to reach more detailed and concrete information. 

Keywords

Self-efficacy, Bandura’s theory, football players.

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