Abstract:
In the current scenario of Sri Lanka, the economic crisis plays a major role. In line with
this, people feel fear and anxiety are common to all, and this psychological issue impacts
their physical and mental health. Consider self-efficacy indicated that people believe they
can have the abilities and capabilities to complete the given task successfully. High self-
efficacy of people easily handle unexpected sudden events in work and family life.
Especially the self-efficacy of people satisfied with their job and contribute to
performance as well. Looking into the problem statement, graduate employees’ attitude
is highly influenced to choose a government job in Sri Lanka. Even though they face
challenges are a mismatch of skills in the labor market and difficulty in absorbing suitable
jobs. Further, previous studies have tested self-efficacy and job performance in different
areas, which show positive, negative, and no relationship with these variables. A dearth
of areas of research conducted in the Sri Lankan context. The main objective of the
research are to assess the co-relationship and impact between self-efficacy and job
performance, to recognize the mediating effect of job satisfaction between self-efficacy
and job performance, and to find out the moderating effect of economic crisis between
self-efficacy and job satisfaction. Conceptual variables are self-efficacy, job satisfaction,
economic crisis, and job performance. Thousand four hundred and fourteen samples were
selected from the Eastern Provincial Council on the basis of a stratified propionate
sampling method.
