The study of relationship between academic self-efficacy with self concept and critical thinking in students

The aim of this research was to study the relationship between academic self-efficacy with self concept and critical thinking in students. The target population consisted of all girl students, who were studying in elementary and high school grades in Tehran city in the academic year of 2015 and 2016. The sample was chosen among the elementary school and high school students which were in the second region of Tehran city. They were selected randomly by multi-level cluster sampling method and consisted of 190 students. The data were gathered by 3 questionnaires including academic self-efficacy questionnaire of Jing and Morgan, self concept and California critical thinking questionnaire. Pearson correlation co-efficient was used in order to analyze the data collected. The results showed that there was no significant relationship between academic self-efficacy with self concept, academic self-efficacy with critical thinking and critical thinking with self concept.