Self Quotes by Albert Bandura

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

— Albert Bandura

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

— Albert Bandura

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

— Albert Bandura

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

— Albert Bandura

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

— Albert Bandura

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

— Albert Bandura

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

— Albert Bandura

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

— Albert Bandura

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

— Albert Bandura

Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

— Albert Bandura

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

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring…

— Albert Bandura

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield…

— Albert Bandura

Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed…

— Albert Bandura

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed…

— Albert Bandura

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on…

— Albert Bandura

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

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

— Albert Bandura

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

— Albert Bandura

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

— Albert Bandura

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

— Albert Bandura

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

— Albert Bandura

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

— Albert Bandura

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

— Albert Bandura

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

— Albert Bandura

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

— Albert Bandura

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

— Albert Bandura

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

— Albert Bandura

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

— Albert Bandura

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

— Albert Bandura

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

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

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