Writing is an essential skill for academic development within any disciplinary area. Despite the rapidly growing body of research on the various aspects of second language writing, research on writing self-efficacy remains scarce. This study investigated the relationship the between writing self-efficacy and writing proficiency in English as a second language. In this cross-sectional study, 304 Malaysian undergraduate students completed a writing self-efficacy questionnaire. The participants’ writing proficiency was assessed using two different writing tasks. The results showed that there was a significant difference in writing self-efficacy among the three writing proficiency groups. It was also found that science students had significantly higher writing self-efficacy than those in social sciences. Limitations of the study and Implications for second language writing instruction are also discussed.
Introduction: Adolescents are one of the most important and influential people in society and research on their psychological issues is important. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between femininity-masculinity tendency with antisocial, histrionic and paranoia personality disorders in adolescents girl. Method: The method of this research is correlational. The study population included girl high school students in Kamyaran in the academic year of 2018-2019, 302 of them were selected as the research sample and answered the Michel Googlen Scales (1996) and the Millon-III scale (1977). Data analysis was performed using spss software version 23 and Pearson correlation and regression statistical methods. Results: The finding showed that there was a correlation between feminity and histrionic personality disorder with 0.26 (P<0.05) and paranoia personality disorder with 0.20 (P<0.05). Also, the tendency to feminity predicts antisocial, histrionic and paranoia personality disorders in a positive and meaningful way (F<3.965, P<0.05). According to the finding, there was a correlation between tendency to masculinity and social personality disorder with 0.22 (P<0.05) and histrionic personality disorder 0.19 (P<0.01). Also, the tendency to masculinity predicts antisocial, histrionic and paranoia personality disorders in a positive and meaningful way (F<3.910, P<0.05). Conclusion: According to the results of this study, it can be concluded that the tendency to femininity-masculinity predicts personality disorders in adolescent. Therefore, it is one of the important psychological factors in the field of personality disorders.
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