Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state — 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
Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly… — 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
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
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
A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for… — 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
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — 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
How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a… — 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
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
People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to… — 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
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
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that… — 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
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