Abstract:
This research investigated 1) the adversity, academic self-efficacy and study habits of university students, 2) the effects of students' gender, academic achievement and class levels on their adversity, academic self-efficacy and study habits. Participants were 761 undergraduate students from Chulalongkhon University. The instruments used were the Adversity Inventory, the Academic Self-efficacy Inventory, and the Study Habits Inventory. Data was analyzed using a two-way ANOVA design followed by post-hoc multiple comparisons with Dunnetts T3 test. The major findings were as follow : 1. University students reported high level of adversity, moderately high level of academic self-efficacy and moderate level of study habits. 2. The two-way ANOVA yielded significant effects for students's gender, academic achievement and class levels on their adversity, academic self-efficacy, and study habits. 2.1 Students with good and excellent academic achievement perceived higher level of academic self-efficacy than those with low academic achievement and students with excellent academic achievement perceived higher level of academic self-efficacy than those with moderate academic achievement. 2.2 Students with excellent academic achievement had better study habits than those with high, moderate and low academic achievement. 2.3 Male students perceived higher level of academic self-efficacy than female students and the fourth year students perceived higher level of academic self-efficacy than the first and the second year students. 2.4 Female students had better study habits than male students. 2.5 The third year students had higher adversity in endurance dimension than the first year students. 2.6 The first-year female students had higher adversity in ownership dimension than the first-year male students, the fourth-year male students, and the second-year female students; and the third-year female students had higher adversity in ownership dimension than the second-year female students.