The Adolescent's Self-efficacy Dimensions in Different Family Types Based on the Contextual Family Process and Content Model

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the adolescents’ self-efficacy dimensions in different Family types in the Contextual family Process and Content (FPC) model. The sample of the study included 590 (282 boys; 308 girls) high school students from first to third grades in Shiraz City، that were selected by multi-stage random sampling method in the 1392-93 academic year. To collect the data، Moris’ questionnaire of self-efficacy dimensions (2001)، Karwowski’s questionnaire of creative self-efficacy (2010)، Self-report Family Process Scale (Samani، 2008) and Self-report Family Content Scale (Samani، 2008) were applied. To compare the different dimensions of self-efficacy in four types of family، the Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) test was used. The result indicated that family types had significant effect on academic self-efficacy، emotional self-efficacy and social self-efficacy، but family types didn’t show significant effect on adolescents’ creative self-efficacy. Moreover، the findings cleared that children of healthy families had higher rate of academic، social and emotional self-efficacy. In contrast، unhealthy families’ children showed a low rate of academic self-efficacy and social self-efficacy، and children of content problematic families had lower rate of emotional self-efficacy