People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. — 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
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished — 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
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought — 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
The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life — 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
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred… — 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
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
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
Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to… — 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
“Albert Bandura, a Stanford psychologist who has done much of the research on self-efficacy, sums it up well: “People’s beliefs about their… — Daniel Goleman 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
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
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
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
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 are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy — 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
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state — 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
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style. — Martha Beck 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
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image