The Mediating and Moderating Role of Self-efficacy in the Relationship between Hope and Peace Attitudes

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Year-Number: 2016-Volume 8, Issue 2
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The current study was designed to investigate the mediating and moderating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between hope and peace attitudes. The participants were 293 adolescents who are continuing their high school education. 57% of the students were females, 43% of them were males. Their ages were between 14 and 16. The following inventories were used to collect data: Turkish version of Children’s Hope Scale to assess hope, Self-efficacy Scale for Children to evaluate self-efficacy, and Peace Attitudes Scale to measure attitudes towards peace. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to investigate the mediator and moderator role of self-efficacy. The results pointed out that self-efficacy fully mediated the relationship between hope and peace attitudes, and plays also a moderator role in this relationship. Mediation indicates that as hope increases peace attitudes increase as well and self-efficacy has a mediator effect in this enhancement. Moderator role indicates that that self-efficacy strengthened the relation between hope and peace attitudes. The importance of the results is discussed in the light of literature.

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Abstract

The current study was designed to investigate the mediating and moderating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between hope and peace attitudes. The participants were 293 adolescents who are continuing their high school education. 57% of the students were females, 43% of them were males. Their ages were between 14 and 16. The following inventories were used to collect data: Turkish version of Children’s Hope Scale to assess hope, Self-efficacy Scale for Children to evaluate self-efficacy, and Peace Attitudes Scale to measure attitudes towards peace. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to investigate the mediator and moderator role of self-efficacy. The results pointed out that self-efficacy fully mediated the relationship between hope and peace attitudes, and plays also a moderator role in this relationship. Mediation indicates that as hope increases peace attitudes increase as well and self-efficacy has a mediator effect in this enhancement. Moderator role indicates that that self-efficacy strengthened the relation between hope and peace attitudes. The importance of the results is discussed in the light of literature.

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