Boost Quote by Martha Beck

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

— Albert Bandura

The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them,…

— Albert Bandura

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

— 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-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and…

— Stephen Richards

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

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

— Albert Bandura

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

— Albert Bandura

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of…

— Albert Bandura