1. Intrapair Similarity of Computer Self-Efficacy in Turkish Adolescent Twins
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Ömer Faruk Ursavaş, David McIlroy, Deniz Deryakulu, Erkan Çalışkan, 0-Belirlenecek, URSAVAS, Omer Faruk -- 0000-0002-5759-7894, and [Deryakulu, Deniz] Ankara Univ, Dept Comp & Instruct Technol Educ, Cebeci Campus, TR-06590 Ankara, Turkey -- [Mcilroy, David] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Sch Nat Sci & Psychol, Liverpool, Merseyside, England -- [Ursavas, Omer Faruk] Recep Tayyip Erdogan Univ, Dept Comp & Instruct Technol Educ, Rize, Turkey -- [Caliskan, Erkan] Nigde Univ, Dept Comp & Instruct Technol Educ, Nigde, Turkey
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Self-efficacy ,Turkish ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,050109 social psychology ,Mean age ,twins ,Twin study ,language.human_language ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,Likert scale ,Correlation ,intrapair similarity ,Similarity (psychology) ,language ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,behavioral genetics ,twin study ,Psychology ,computer self-efficacy ,0503 education ,Behavioural genetics - Abstract
WOS: 000382949700005, The purpose of this study is to investigate genetic and environmental influences on computer self-efficacy. A total of 165 Turkish twin-pairs participated in the study. Participants' mean age was 12.45 (SD=1.82). The results of paired t-test comparisons showed no significant differences in monozygotic, and both same-sex and opposite-sex dizygotic twin-pairs' levels of computer self-efficacy. Correlations were calculated to test intrapair similarity for computer self-efficacy. The monozygotic correlation for computer self-efficacy was .443 and the same-sex dizygotic correlation was .472, suggesting no genetic contribution to computer self-efficacy but providing support for environmental influences. Interpretations of results and potential directions for future research are presented.
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- 2016