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Academic Self-efficacy in a Globalized Era: Impacts of Culture and Cross-Culture

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Academic Self-efficacy in Education

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Research has shown that academic self-efficacy can have significant influence on individuals’ learning motivation and performance. Of the many research directions of academic self-efficacy, the multidimensional socio-contextual sources influencing students’ academic self-efficacy is one of the most complex and yet the most salient for discussion in the globalized academic environments that higher education institutes face. This chapter reviews recent literature on how culture or cross-culture experience can influence or be influenced by students’ academic self-efficacy. We first discuss students’ academic self-efficacy from a culturally sensitive perspective by providing a cultural dimension model adapted from Hofstede (Culture's consequences: international differences in work-related values. Sage, 1980; Culture’s consequences: comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across nations, 2nd edn. Sage, 2001; Online Readings Psychol Culture 2(1):2307-0919.1014, 2011) and Oyserman et al. (Psychol Bull 128(1):110–117, 2002) and illustrating the different dimensions with examples of how they may influence students’ academic self-efficacy. With the cultural dimensions defined, the complex issue of how international students who possess a different internalized cultural value may clash with the culture and academic system of the host country, and how the clash may impact students’ academic self-efficacy is explored. We conclude the chapter with some suggestions for future research on academic self-efficacy from a culturally sensitive perspective and some implications on how higher education institutes may support international students from varying backgrounds in enhancing their academic self-efficacy.

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Liu, MJ., Cheng, YY., Chen, YT. (2022). Academic Self-efficacy in a Globalized Era: Impacts of Culture and Cross-Culture. In: Khine, M.S., Nielsen, T. (eds) Academic Self-efficacy in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8240-7_7

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