Self-efficacy

Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191-215.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1977

Volume

84

Issue

2

Pages

191-215

DOI

10.1037/0033-295X.84.2.191

DOI registrant

American Psychological Association

Link

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0033-295X.84.2.191 not authoritativefound

Cited from

psychology

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

Primes

• Learned Helplessness
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Learning
  • Learning is the process by which an agent acquires or modifies an internal capability — knowledge, skill, model, or behavior — as a durable result of experience or information, such that the agent's future performance or predictions change, an account that Skinner (1953) develops at length for behavioral capability change and that Bandura (1977) extends to observational acquisition.
• Observational Learning (Social Learning)
  • Observational learning is the acquisition of behaviors, skills, norms, or attitudes through watching others rather than through direct trial-and-error or direct reinforcement, via four linked sub-processes identified by Bandura's social learning theory.
• Self-Efficacy
  • Albert Bandura's foundational 1977 theory operationalized self-efficacy as a belief variable that predicts behavior through the agency expectation: when a person estimates (ahead of action) their probability of successfully organizing and executing the behaviors a task requires, that estimate conditions effort investment, persistence under difficulty, and task selection.
• Self-Handicapping
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.

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