SDCA Journal of Psychology

Abstract

The number of out of school youth in the Philippines has increased in the past couple of years. The reasons why the youth stop schooling are mainly because of the following reasons: financial matters, family problem, marriage, and lack of self-interest. These aspects may affect one's psychological security and self-efficacy which made the purpose of the present study to find the significant relationship between psychological security and self-efficacy among out of school youths. The researchers gathered 200 respondents currently living in Imus, Cavite which consisted of 128 males and 72 females ranging from ages 15 to 24 years old. The respondents were given 3 types of test, psychological security and self-efficacy scale including a demographic profile questionnaire. Pearson r correlation was used to test the data gathered and retrieved a mean of 3.31 from psychological security and a mean of 2.98 from self-efficacy with an overall computed R-value of 0.2307. This concludes the findings from the data gathered to reject the null hypothesis. Therefore, there is a significant relationship between psychological security and self-efficacy among out of school youth. The findings also revealed that the level of self-efficacy is higher than the psychological security, and thus psycho-educational interventions are recommended to attain higher level of psychological security.

Keywords: Out-of-school youth, psychological security, self-efficacy.