Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale Process Dissemination
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Self-efficacy, conceptualized as an individual's judgement, or perception, of their own capability to successfully perform a behavior, is widely used to explain and predict behavior. It is considered a factor on the resilience pathway to improved food security and nutrition, and is routinely measured using Bandura’s General Self-Efficacy Scale.
In this webinar, Helen Keller Intl will share their approach to developing a culturally informed perceived self-efficacy scale. Working with Bengali, Marma, and Mro ethnic groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh, this approach to perceived self-efficacy used ethnographic techniques adapted from cultural domain analysis, a set of methodologies based in cultural consensus theory, which assumes cultural knowledge is shared by members of the same culture. The goal of this approach was to allow subjects to define the construct (i.e., develop an “emic” definition) to identify components of a shared cultural model of women’s self-efficacy and assess whether a perceived self-efficacy scale for women with emic validity could explain a portion of resilience capacity not being captured by other measures.
Participants will learn about the process of defining self-efficacy from an insider perspective, how to develop a tailored scale for specific target groups, and discuss lessons learned throughout each step of the process.
This event will be in English with French interpretation.
The Perceived Self-Efficacy (PSE) scale and toolkit have been developed with the support of IDEAL's Micro Grants.