Attainment Quote by Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as…

— Albert Bandura

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

— 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

Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors…

— Albert Bandura

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

Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their…

— Albert Bandura

“Albert Bandura, a Stanford psychologist who has done much of the research on self-efficacy, sums it up well: “People’s beliefs about their abilities have…

— Daniel Goleman

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.

— Martha Beck

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