Careless response effect in the moderation analysis of the self-efficacy construct: A brief report

• Autores: Merino-Soto, César, Cruz, Gustavo Calderón-de la, Manzanares-Medina, Eduardo, Correa-Rojas, Jossué, García-Rivas, Javier, Toledano-Toledano, Filiberto
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Repositorio: UPC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/682060
• Enlace del recurso: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2712085/v1; http://hdl.handle.net/10757/682060
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Self-efficacy; Perceived academic performance; Adolescents; Perú; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.01.00

There are many studies on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic performance; however, there has not been a moderation analysis performed on the impact of carelessness/insufficient effort (C/IE) on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and perceived academic performance. A total of 731 adolescents school children (Lima, Peru) from a public educational institution participated. Two moderators were used, namely the sex and age of participants, and a sensitivity analysis was performed using both clean and dirty C/IE data. The prevalence of C/IE was 14.3% of the possible cases. The interaction between self-efficacy and age was affected, while the main effect of self-efficacy remained strong. It is concluded that the effect of moderators changes only slightly when their effect size is not weak.