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
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy — 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
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
The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy — 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
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities — 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
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy — 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
To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield… — 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
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