Investigating the role of self-esteem and self-efficacy in predicting academic performance of second grade students of elementary schools in the region 2 of Kerman

Abstract

One of the interesting subjects in the social researches is academic performance since it can be considered as a measure not only for extended compatibility with educational environment and future position of the student but also for success of educational system in goal setting and meeting individual’s demands. Reviewing history of related researches, we realize that several researches have been performed to determine the relation between both variables of self-esteem and general self-efficacy with other variables and current study investigates the role of self-esteem and general self-efficacy in predicting academic performance of second grade students of elementary schools.On that basis the results indicate that this model is fit to the data obtained from studied sample, and Self esteem and self efficacy are considered as the predicting factors of academic performance.