Table 8 Compared correlations of ‘independent’ and ‘interdependent’ control beliefs with social axioms and skills.

From: On whom do you rely—me, myself, and I? competence and control beliefs applied to the related personality model

Variable

  

Externality (PC)b

   

Social skillsc

Social axiomsd

 

Sample

 

1. General self-efficacy (GSE)a

G

z(p)

0.666 (0.253)

–0.113 (0.545)

 

Δr

0.094

0.009

K

z(p)

1.065 (.144)

0.348 (0.364)

  

Δr

0.147

0.052

2. Self-efficacy (SI)b

G

z(p)

–0.853 (0.803)

1.367 (0.086)

 

Δr

0.111

0.155

K

z(p)

0.584 (0.280)

–0.859 (0.805)

  

Δr

0.079

0.120

  1. G (German sample); K (Kenyan sample); Δr (difference of correlations).
  2. aSchwarzer and Jerusalem (1995).
  3. bI-SEE (Greve et al., 2001; Krampen, 1991).
  4. cSSI (Riggio, 1986).
  5. dSAS II short (Barnard et al., 2017; Bierbrauer and Klinger, 2001; Leung et al., 2012).