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<p>Self-efficacy is an individual's confidence in the personal ability to complete a task under specified conditions. Game self-efficacy is the belief of game players that they would win in a business simulation game competition. To understand the composites of such belief, an instrument of 30 statements was developed and statistically tested on 227 undergraduate students at the end of a business simulation game competition. The factor analysis produced eight factors of perceived game self-efficacy, namely, innovation, experimentation, conviction, openness, focus, proactivity, conceptualisation and determination. These factors have significant research implications for goal-oriented behaviour, goal setting and performance enhancement at work and in games and competitions, and in developing simulation games.</p>
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Self-efficacy is an individual's confidence in the personal ability to complete a task under specified conditions. Game self-efficacy is the belief of game players that they would win in a business simulation game competition. To understand the composites of such belief, an instrument of 30 statements was developed and statistically tested on 227 undergraduate students at the end of a business simulation game competition. The factor analysis produced eight factors of perceived game self-efficacy, namely, innovation, experimentation, conviction, openness, focus, proactivity, conceptualisation and determination. These factors have significant research implications for goal-oriented behaviour, goal setting and performance enhancement at work and in games and competitions, and in developing simulation games.

Perceived self-efficacy of students in a business simulation game

The Irish Journal of Management

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Self-efficacy is an individual's confidence in the personal ability to complete a task under specified conditions. Game self-efficacy is the belief of game...

Perceived self-efficacy of students in a business simulation game

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Apr 30, 2021

Page range: 61 - 73

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2021-0004

Keywords
business simulation, game self-efficacy, goal-oriented behaviour

© 2021 Vinod Dumblekar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Perceived self-efficacy of students in a business simulation game

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Apr 30, 2021

Page range: 61 - 73

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2021-0004

Keywordsbusiness simulation, game self-efficacy, goal-oriented behaviour

© 2021 Vinod Dumblekar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
business simulation, game self-efficacy, goal-oriented behaviour