Impact of social support on self-efficacy among students of working and non-working mothers

Pages: 61-64
Mahadevi Waddar, Supriya Fernandes and Tanya Keni (Department of Psychology, Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science, Autonomous, Margao, Goa)

Social support helps individuals to reduce the amount of stress experienced and to cope better in dealing with stressful life situations (Dusselier, Dunn, Wang, Shelley, & Whalen, 2005). Mother plays an important role in raising a child to adulthood and equipping that child with the necessary skills and social support to enter successfully into society (Spoth & Conroy, 1993).In view of this the present study is conducted to study the impact of social support on self-efficacy among students of working and non-working mothers. Perceived Social Support Scales and General Self-Efficacy Scale are administered on sample of 120 undergraduate students. The results reveled that, students of working and non-working mothers with high social support have higher self-efficacy than the students of working and non-working mothers with low social support.