INFAD (Sep 2019)

Relationship between perceived environmental mastery and self-efficacy in university students

  • Carlos Freire Rodríguez,
  • María del Mar Ferradás Canedo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2019.n1.v5.1613
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 381 – 390

Abstract

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Perceived environmental mastery is one of the core dimensions of psychological well-being. Environmental mastery refers to the degree to which the person feels responsible for the events that occur in his/her life and, therefore, he/she is competent to choose and create enabling environments to meet his/her own personal development needs. The present work analyzes the relationship between this dimension of psychological well-being and the motivated behavior in university students. Specifically, it is studied if the degree (low, medium, or high) of perceived environmental mastery influences the students

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