2nd International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All (ICLEL), Liepaja, Latvia, 21 - 23 July 2016, pp.89-96
The purpose of this study is to determine correlations between culinary students' general self-efficacy beliefs and academic motivation. Relational survey method was used for the study. The sample of the study was identified through the simple random sampling method. The data were collected from 206 culinary students in the food and beverage department of a vocational high school in Antalya, Turkey. The data for the study was collected through the General Self Efficacy Scale (GSES), and Academic Motivation Scale (AMS). For data analyses, descriptive analysis, the Pearson Correlation Coefficient, t-test, Anova test, and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis methods were used. The study results indicated that there is a relation between culinary students' self efficacy beliefs and academic motivation. Culinary students marked high points on the GSES and on its sub-scales. In addition, culinary students scored moderate points on the AMS and its sub-scales. It is found that, there is no significant difference in gender between the self-efficacy of culinary students and their academic motivation.