Beyond thinking: Self-efficacy and social competence on youth's metacognition

• Main Author: Asiatico, Ma. Dinah Espartero
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Metacognition; Self-efficacy; Social skills; College students—Psychology; Educational Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13272
• Institution: De La Salle University

Past studies have explored self-efficacy, social competence, and metacognition as separate traits contributing to an individual's personal development in social situations. This study focused on integrating essential factors that can affect individuals during college, which is a crucial stage of life. Data were samples of 1,256 college youth gathered from the Youth and Poverty Data Set compiled by De La Salle University Department of Psychology. (2012). Hypotheses were focused on how gender, place of learning, self-efficacy, and social competence play a particular role in college youth’s metacognition among their family and social life contexts. Results show that it only supported our Hypothesis 3, wherein self-efficacy and social competence are good predictors of college youth’s metacognition in both domains (family and school). New findings of the interaction of gender, self-efficacy, and social competence at play in a school context but not in the family are valuable information that may be explored further in future studies. The study discovered that the identified predictors did not significantly differ in their effects based on the place of learning. However, it was found that gender had a buffering effect on self-efficacy regarding one's metacognition in the school domain only.