THE INFLUENCE OF PERCEIVED UNEMPLOYMENT AND SELF EFFICACY ON ATTITUDE TOWARDS LEARNING AMONG UNDERGRADUATE

Abstract

Education has been described has a weapon to fight poverty. Through acquisition of knowledge and skills individual are able to make better decision and solve various challenges that may constitute stressors in everyday life. In Nigeria today, the youth attitude toward education is falling as people are developing less interest in having deep knowledge of learning material but only interested in collecting certificate and finding their way out of academic environment. People with high level of self-efficacy belief that they have capacity and skills that is require to cope in academic settings .The study investigate the influence of perceive unemployment rate and self efficacy on attitude towards education among undergraduate. A non- random convenient sampling technique was used for the study. The participants for the study were one hundred and ninety–seven The result shows that participants who perceive high unemployment rate have more positive attitude towards education than those who have low perception of unemployment rate at [t = 2.93, P < 0.01]. That participants who have high self-efficacy show more positive attitude towards education than those with low self-efficacy at [t 194 = -2.43, P < 0.05]. Male and female do not differ on their attitude towards education at [t viii 194 = -0.90, P > 0.05]. Income level of parents does not determine attitude towards education. [F 194 Hence, certain recommendation and limitations of the study were considered