The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) online test provided by PsycTest is designed to help you understand how confident you are in your abilities when facing various life challenges. This test is derived from the scale compiled by German psychologist Professor Ralf Schwarzer and his colleagues in 1981. Currently, GSES has been translated into many languages and is widely used around the world.
This test will help you assess your general self-efficacy. Self-efficacy, also known as personal efficacy, is a measure of the degree or strength of an individual’s belief in his or her ability to complete tasks and achieve goals. Bandura defined self-efficacy as people’s beliefs about their abilities to achieve action goals in a specific domain. A person who believes that he can handle various things well will be more positive and proactive in life.
General self-efficacy refers to an individual’s expectation of his/her ability to complete a certain behavior in a specific situation. It includes two important components:
- Outcome expectations: your assumptions about what consequences your actions may lead to.
-Efficacy expectancy: your subjective judgment of your ability to perform a behavior.
A person with a high sense of self-efficacy is usually more proactive in life, more willing to try new things, and more able to persevere in the face of challenges.
Related Reading: Understanding Self-Efficacy: A Guide to Impact, Function, and the GSES Online Test
The GSES scale has 10 items in total, covering the following aspects:
- Sense of effort
-Talent - Sense of environment
- Sense of goal achievement
- Self-expectations
Each item is in the form of a 4-point Likert scale. You need to choose the option that best suits your situation and rate it from ’not at all true’ to ‘completely true’. The higher the total score on the GSES scale, the stronger your general self-efficacy.
**This scale is suitable for people over 12 years old, whether it is individual or group testing. **
Research shows that self-efficacy has a great impact on individuals:
- Determine people’s choice of activities and persistence for the activities
- Influence people’s attitude in the face of difficulties
- Affects the acquisition of new behaviors and the performance of learned behaviors
- Mood that affects the activity
If you want to better understand your confidence in facing challenges and how to improve your self-efficacy, give this test a try. Click the ‘Start Test’ button below to start the test.
