TY - BOOK AU - Chaarani,Ruba TI - Self-efficacious beliefs and students' self-esteem : the case of private English-Medium school in Al-Koura PY - 2016/// CY - Beirut PB - University of Balamand - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences KW - Estime personnelle KW - Koura KW - Les Attitudes et conceptions des étudiants KW - Private sector KW - Secteur Privé KW - Self-Esteem KW - Students Attitudes and Conceptions KW - التعليم الخاص KW - الكورة KW - تقدير الذات KW - مواقف الطلبة وتصوراتهم N1 - النوع : Mémoire N2 - The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship and effect of self-efficacious beliefs in mathematics, English, Arabic and history on students’ self-esteem in the context of private schools in North Lebanon and to explore how this relationship varies between genders. One hundred and fifty-one students completed the questionnaires which assessed their efficacious beliefs in math, English, Arabic and history as well as their self-esteem. The results drawn from the questionnaires revealed that students have moderately high self-esteem and that there is no gender difference in the means of self-esteem among the participants of the study (p=.595). With regards to efficacious beliefs, ANOVA analysis showed that there was no significant differences between male and female students’ efficacious beliefs in math (p=.898), history (p=.735) and Arabic (p=.081). Nevertheless, ANOVA showed significant gender differences in students’ efficacious beliefs in English (p=.011). These results induced that gender stereotyping could not be highly thought of by the participants in this study. In addressing the correlation between students’ self-esteem and their efficacious beliefs in the academic disciplines pertinent to this study, findings evinced that both male and female students linked their self-esteem to their efficacious beliefs in math, Arabic and English but did not link their self-esteem to their efficacious beliefs in history. Moreover, the correlation between self-esteem and self-efficacy was stronger for females than it was for males in math (r=.451- r=.440 respectively) and English (r=.302 – r=.291 respectively), while it was stronger for males (r=.333) rather than for females (r=.238) in Arabic. Stepwise analysis revealed that students’ efficacious beliefs in math, English and Arabic are significant (at .05 level of significance) in predicting students’ self-esteem UR - http://olib.balamand.edu.lb/webview?infile=details.glu&loid=165428&rs=186042&hitno=66 ER -