The Academic Self-Efficacy Among Undergraduates : The Role of Gender, CGPA and Trait Emotional Intelligence

Academic self-efficacy is important for students which will help them to perform better in studies. This study aims to explore the level of academic self-efficacy among UNIMAS undergraduates based on gender, CGPA and trait emotional intelligence. The samples of study involved are 50 male and 50 female participants which consists of final year students from Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development of different courses that includes Human Resource, Cognitive Science and Counselling. This study is a quantitative study that utilizes questionnaires adopted from a study which measure the academic self-efficacy in terms of gender and academic year experience of undergraduates by Sachitra and Bandara (2017) and The Short Form (TEIQue-SF) Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire was developed by Petrides (2009). The results of the study have shown that female students have higher academic self-efficacy compared to male students. In addition, students who obtain a higher CGPA also have higher selfefficacy. There was also a small positive correlation between trait emotional intelligence and academic self-efficacy