Age and gender effects on self-efficacy and training success

What is it about?

With a large and diverse group, we've conducted an e-learning training measuring self-efficacy and training success. With increasing age, men and women differed in their self-efficacy before training: whilst men started with relatively high self-efficacy and the expectation to succeed, women started more humble. Also during the training, both groups developed differently: Women's self-efficacy increased above men's level whilst men's self-efficacy slightly dropped. This may have fueled our additional results, that older women outperformed older men in their training success.

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Why is it important?

Discussing demographic changes in the work force, the study adds new aspects to a diversity discussion with its focus on self-efficacy differences between men and women. Findings show that a) with increasing age, men and women differ in their self-efficacy, b) with increasing age, men and women differ in their training success, c) measuring self-efficacy before training might be more important than after, as this might be more influential for training success