Predicting the skill performance of female police officers based on self-efficacy; Investigating the mediating role of success expectation and goal management

Self-efficacy as an individual belief can strongly affect a person's thinking, emotional and behavioral patterns. Also, self-expectation to achieve desired results and goal management can affect performance. The aim of this research was to investigate the effect of self-efficacy with the mediating role of expectation of success and goal management on the skill performance of female police officers participating in the police skills competition of 2018. This research is applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of execution method. The statistical population of the research was made up of all the participants in the first round of the police women's skill competition, numbering 79 people, who were all counted by means of valid and reliable questionnaires [Cronbach's alpha of goal management (0.773); self-efficacy (0.748); Self-expectation (0.759) and the whole questionnaire (0.833)] were asked and the data of 71 questionnaires were collected, using SPSS22 and Smart Pls3 software and Kolmogorov Smirnov tests, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. became The research showed that the self-efficacy of people has a positive and significant effect (P<0.05) on the skill performance of police women in performing police skills. Also, self-efficacy through self-expectation and goal management has a positive and significant indirect effect (P<0.05) on skill performance. Since, according to Bandura, self-efficacy can be increased in at least four ways and goal management can be learned, the results of the research can be a basis for planning in order to improve the skill of goal management and increase the self-efficacy of police officers to implement police skills.