Relationship of family communication patterns, perfectionism and social support with academic self-efficacy among female high school students

The present research studies the relationship of family communication patterns, perfectionism and social support with a academic self-efficacy among high school female students of Badreh city, a academic year 93/92.The research method is correlational descriptive. With the method of multi stage random sampling. The number of 162 female students among six high schools were selected as the sample of research. The participants completed the inventory of revised family communication patterns, The inventory of perfectionism at school, multidimensional scale of perceived social support, as well as the inventory of academic self-efficacy of McIllroy and Bunting. In this research, statistical methods of Pearson correlation and simultaneous and stepwise regression analysis have been used. The results of analysis with Pearson correlation showed that there is a significant relation between all the predictor variables (except the subscale of perceived social support) with the academic self-efficacy. The results of multiple regression analysis also indicated that the variables of positive and negative perfectionism as well as family communication patterns (conversation orientation) have respectively the most potential for prediction of the academic self-efficacy.