To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless,… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons — Albert Bandura Copy Share
People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future,… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them. — Albert Bandura Copy Share