Quotes About Self Efficacy

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

Albert Bandura

#2. 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 to lead them to discount the import of the experience

Albert Bandura

#3. Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

#5. In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs ... different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

Albert Bandura

#6. Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

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

Martha Beck

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

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

#13. People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Albert Bandura

#14. 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

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

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

#18. 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

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

Albert Bandura

#20. 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 with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

Stephen Richards

#21. Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

Albert Bandura

#22. The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

#24. The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Albert Bandura

#25. 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 information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

#27. Instead of complaining about your situation, actually do something about it. Playing "poor me" just ain't sexy.

Miya Yamanouchi

#28. Since the Strict Father model is what holds Strict Father morality together, interference with the pursuit of self-interest threatens the foundations of the whole Strict Father moral framework - from the efficacy of moral strength to the validity of the moral order. The

George Lakoff

#29. In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Ayn Rand

#30. Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Albert Bandura

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

Albert Bandura

#32. Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

Albert Bandura

#33. Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others

Albert Bandura