Academic Behavioural Confidence of Government College Students in Mizoram
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https://doi.org/10.53573/rhimrj.2026.v13n02.027Keywords:
Academic Behavioural Confidence, College students, Mizoram, Northeast IndiaAbstract
Academic success among college students has long been understood as the product of not only cognitive abilities but also a range of non-cognitive psychosocial factors that shape students’ engagement with learning tasks, perseverance in the face of challenges, and overall educational outcomes. One factor that has gathered increasing research attention is Academic Behavioural Confidence (ABC), a construct based on students’ beliefs about their ability to successfully carry out academic behaviours and manage the demands of higher education (Hlalele, 2011; Nicholson et al., 2013). Academic behavioural confidence reflects how students perceive their capacity to plan, engage in, and complete study-related behaviours such as attending lectures, independent study, verbalising understanding, and maintaining consistent effort—behaviours that are critical to performance and persistence in college environments.
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