Relationship between General Self Efficacy and Psychopathological Symptoms in High School Students

The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between general self-efficacy and p sychop athological symptoms in a sample of high school students. This study is ex-post research. Through random sampling, 240 third grade high school students (120 boys and 120 girls) were selected from high schools in Babol (lran). The participants completed the General Selfefficacy Scale (Sherer, et al. 1982) and the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (Derogatis, et al. 1976). The results reve aled that self-efficacy was negatively associated with the high schoolstudents’psychopathological symp toms (soma t izat ion, obsess ivecomp ulsive, inte rp e rsonal sensit ivity, dep ression, anxiety, host ility, p hob ic, paranoid thinking, psychoticism) and low levels of gen e ral self-efficacy we re a c c omp a n ie d b y h ig h l e v e ls o f psychopathological symptoms. lt was also revealed that there was no partial gender difference between girls and boys in general self-efficacy. The implicat ions of these findings are discussed.