Parental Pressure and Students Self-Efficacy

Parental Pressure is the drive that parents put on their children to achieve a goal. On one hand, student’s self-efficacy is the belief of the students that they can do successfully a task whatever it is. Furthermore, this study used likert scale that was conducted among 245 students studying in Jagobiao National High School during September 2019. The result revealed that the parents hold high expectations from the students in terms of academic outcomes. While it was revealed also that the parents had a low attention in which they inconsistently go to school to check their children’s school grades and performance. On the other hand, in terms of student’s selfefficacy, they reported that they can always handle in solving difficult problems if they try hard enough. However, they do not have enough self-efficacy when it comes to dealing with unexpected events. In the findings of the study showed in Pearson Chi-square, it was presented that there is a significant association between the two variables parental pressure and students self-efficacy because the p value (i. e .000) is less than the alpha (i. e 0.05) the decision is reject Hα and this means that parental pressure has to do with the students selfefficacy. It was also revealed that the student’s self-efficacy is high when it comes in doing a task in school.