Circumstances Quote by Albert Bandura

“Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.”

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Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles…

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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,…

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Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

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Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among…

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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…

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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…

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[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

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People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future,…

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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…

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Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

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

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

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Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,…

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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

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“The set of circumstances that justifies the use of deadly force is a situation of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to…

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My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond…

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