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
For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal… — 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
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
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects… — 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