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 Image
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. — 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 who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — 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
We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy… — 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
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are… — 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
It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
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 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 discordances. Disparities… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image