Self-belife is one of the essential characteristics of every person's personality and affects other aspects of the individual, and the shortage or lack of them leads to the lack of growth of other aspects of personality. The study is to identify the barriers of self-belife among young people and to examine ...
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Self-belife is one of the essential characteristics of every person's personality and affects other aspects of the individual, and the shortage or lack of them leads to the lack of growth of other aspects of personality. The study is to identify the barriers of self-belife among young people and to examine some of the important pridictors of youth self-efficacy in Bushehr province. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The population consisted of all youths in Bushehr city. 3000 youth from different cities of Bushehr province were selected through multistage cluster sampling. The research tools included a semi-structured interview, and the Seligman attributional styles questionnaire, the Levinson locus of control scale, Rosenberg self-belife scale and Hofstede's cultural attitudes. Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of data analysis showed that the most important barriers of youth self-belife include unemployment, lack of independence, ignorance and inability to connected with others. Also, the culture of patriarchy-womanhood and the culture of power distribution with self-efficacy had a significant reverse relation. the domocratic parenting style and the authoritarian parenting style with self-belife had a significant relation. There was a significant relationship between the internal and external control locus with self-belife. On the other hand, optimistic and pessimistic attributional styles had a significant relation with self confidence. Therefore, according to the results of the research, unemployment is the most important barrier to youth self-belife. Also, internal control locus and optimistic attributional styles can be predict young people's self-belife.
