The Impact of College Students’ Self-efficacy and Self-discouragement on Their Adaptation to College Life

The purpose of this study is to confirm the impact of college students" self-efficacy and self-discouragement on their adjustment to college life and to help them adjust to college life by verifying the effect of self-discouragement on the relationship between self-efficacy and their adjustment to college life. A survey was conducted online with college students who voluntarily participated, and the collected data was analyzed using SPSS 26.0 statistical program. The main research results are as follows. First, self-efficacy was confirmed to have a negative correlation with self-discouragement, a positive correlation with personal emotional adaptation, and a positive correlation with social adaptation, and self-discouragement had a negative correlation with personal emotional adaptation and a negative correlation with social adaptation. Second, self-efficacy was found to have a positive effect on personal emotional adaptation and social adaptation. Third, self-discouragement was found to have a negative effect on personal emotional adaptation and social adaptation. Fourth, self-discouragement was confirmed to have a partial mediating effect in the relationship between college students" self-efficacy and personal emotional adaptation, and self-discouragement was confirmed to have a full mediating effect in the relationship between self-efficacy and social adaptation. The results verified in this study can be used as an empirical theoretical basis for improving adaptation to college life through the components of self-efficacy and self-discouragement.