Social Support and Self-Efficacy as Predictor of Academic Adjustment among Students in Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria

Hadiza Mohammed Bello, Yahaya Bello Babamba, Yusuf Fatimoh

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This study investigated the relationship between social support, self-efficacy, and academic adjustment among students at Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria” Kaduna State-Nigeria. The study's objectives are to: ascertain the relationship between social support and academic adjustment as well as ascertain the relationship between self-efficacy and academic adjustment among students of Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic Zaria. Research questions and hypotheses were formulated in line with the study objectives. A correlation research design was adopted. The population of the study comprised two thousand, seven hundred and thirty (3,730) students. The study purposely targets OND II and HND I students. Simple random sampling was used to select the sample size of three hundred and forty-six (346) students which was guided by a research advisor (2006). Three instruments were used to collect data, the Social Support Scale (SSS) by Aggarwal (2010), the Self-Efficacy Scale (SES) by Bandura (1997) and the Academic Adjustment Scale (AAS) adopted by Elias (2010). The collected data were processed and analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) to determine if or not a significant relationship existed. All hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The finding revealed that a significant relationship exists between social support and academic adjustment of students with the following values (r = 0.621, p = 0.001), a significant relationship exists between self-efficacy and academic adjustment of students with (r = 0.506, p = 0.001). It was recommended that parents, guardians, peers and family relations should give students all the necessary support needed to perform better in their academics; psychologists should help to encourage students in boosting their self-efficacy to enable them to adjust to better academics.


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