Ability Quote by Albert Bandura

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

— 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

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— 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

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— 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

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