Level of Contingencies of Self-Worth: Particular Effect on Academic Performance in Pre-service Teacher
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To enhance the understanding on academic performance development in pre-service teacher that related to the level of contingencies of self-worth. The purposes of this study were to analyze the relationship of the indicators that contribute to academic performance with the contingencies of self-worth, and to analyze the gender differ in pre-service teachers’ level of contingencies of self-worth. The total of 158 samples were students in educational program, faculty of education at Lampang Rajabhat University. The instrument of this study was the Thai version of the Contingencies of Self-Worth scale and also ask for the demographic include gender, program, and academic performance. Data were analyzed by using multiple linear regression. The result of this study was that the academic performance regression model was a significant fit of the data overall at the .05 level of significance. The significant predictors of academic performance, which the predictor was making a significant contribution to the model, were family support and academic competence. Level of contingencies of self-worth in female were significantly higher than male at the .05 level of significance in family support, academic competence, competition, and approval from others sub-scale.
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