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
As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons — Albert Bandura Copy Share
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
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
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack… — Albert Bandura Copy Share
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. — Albert Bandura Copy Share
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them. — Albert Bandura Copy Share
