Spurious prospective effect of self-efficacy on academic performance: Reanalysis of a meta-analytic cross-lagged panel analysis

Resumen

An earlier meta-analysis found a positive cross-lagged effect of initial self-efficacy on subsequent academic performance while adjusting for initial performance and the authors concluded that their findings reflected the generative or mobilizing power of self-efficacy. However, it is known that such adjusted cross-lagged effects may be due to correlations with residuals and regression to the mean rather than due to true increasing or decreasing effects. In the present reanalysis of the same meta-analytic data as in the challenged study, we found the prospective effect of self-efficacy on subsequent academic performance to be spurious. The present findings agree with earlier suggestions that self-efficacy may be a consequence, but not a cause, of performance.

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Sorjonen, K., & Melin, B. (2023). Spurious prospective effect of self-efficacy on academic performance: Reanalysis of a meta-analytic cross-lagged panel analysis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qgcu5