Attribution Quote by 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

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

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 on visceral…

— Albert Bandura

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

— 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