Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions… — 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
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards — 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
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
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal… — 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
When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating… — 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
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
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
The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions… — 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
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things. — 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
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. — 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
Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result,… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel… — 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… — 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
After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from… — 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