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
The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many… — 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
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
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
Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics,… — 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
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through… — 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
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
People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily… — 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
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
