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Background:Self-efficacy has well established theoretical and empirical linkages to persistence and achievement. Budding theoretical and recent empirical research has worked to connect selfefficacy to students' interest. Building on research in these areas, burgeoning research has begun to examine the relative role of intercept and slope of self-efficacy for these learning outcomes.

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Background:Self-efficacy has well established theoretical and empirical linkages to persistence and achievement. Budding theoretical and recent empirical research has worked to connect self-efficacy to students' interest. Building on research in these areas, burgeoning research has begun to examine the relative role of intercept and slope of self-efficacy for these learning outcomes. Aims:This study builds on and extends previous research by testing the longitudinal implications of self-efficacy's latent growth for knowledge and interest gains. Methods:These aims were addressed by testing a fully-forward, latent SEM which included a latent growth curve (self-efficacy for a course of study) framed by pre-post standardised tests and measures of individual interest in the domain. This research was undertaken in the motivationally challenging context of a compulsory foreign language university programme in western Japan. First and second year students from 10 faculties participated (n =1184) across a single semester, resulting in seven separate data points.Result:The SEM confirmed the important longitudinal roles of self-efficacy intercept within achievement, and both intercept and slope within future interest. Findings support and extend recent latent curve analysis with similar variables, lending further support to the critical role played by self-efficacy within the development not only of knowledge, but of individual interest as a learning outcome.