The Influence Mechanism of Self-efficacy on College Students' Learning Difficulties

Abstract

College students’ learning difficulties are getting more and more attention from the social, educational and academic circles. This paper studies the influence mechanism of college students' self-efficacy on learning difficulties, and finds that low self-efficacy makes students set unreasonable goals, biased academic expectations, mistaken attribution of poor academic performance, improper learning strategies, little attention to academic help, negative motivations and emotions and other non-cognitive factors besides, and finally lead to learning difficulties. This paper analyzes the causes of college students' low self-efficacy and proposes strategies to improve college students' self-efficacy.