“…Within the educational literature, Self-efficacy has emerged as complementary to the FFM because it predicts academic performance (Odaci, 2011), but also because its operational content identifies pathways that lead to improved performance and successful outcomes (Diseth, 2011), in that it pinpoints specific goal setting, regulated behaviours, investment of effort, persistence and resilience in effort and processing previous mastery experiences within the academic setting. Successive reviews have demonstrated that Self-efficacy is a consistent predictor of AP (Multon, Brown & Lent, 1991;Chemers, Hu & Garcia, 2001;Chen, 2008), and is defined as "belief in one's capabilities to organise and execute courses of action required to produce given attainment" (Bandura, 1997, p. 3).…”