Self-efficacy

According to Bandura, self efficacy is the personal judgment or belief of how well one can execute courses of action required to deal with prospective situations.

Stajkovic and Luthans define: “Self-efficacy refers to an individual’s conviction (or confidence) about his or her abilities to mobilize the motivation, cognitive resources, and courses of action needed to successfully execute a specific task within a given context.”

 

Self efficacy is a task or situation specific characteristic.

 

Self efficacy can affect:

 

1. Choices

2. Effort

3. Perseverance

4. Facilitative thought patterns

5. Stress levels

 

Combining the above concepts, we can think of a higher performer. The best profile of a high performer on a given task would be an individual with strong self efficacy belief, who really gets into the task (welcomes it and looks at it as a challenge to be overcome by him); gives whatever effort it takes to successfully complete the task; perseveres when meeting obstacles, frustrations or setbacks; has positive self thoughts and talks; and is resistant to stress and burnout.

Sources of Self Efficacy

1. Mastery experiences or performance attainments.

2. Vicarious experiences or modeling

3. Social persuasion

4. Physiological or psychological arousal.

General Self Efficacy Scale

by Ralf Schwarzer  & Matthias Jerusalem 

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~health/engscal.htm

Improving Self Efficacy in Students

http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Self-efficacy

General Self Efficacy Scale

by Ralf Schwarzer  & Matthias Jerusalem 

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~health/engscal.htm

See a Presentation - Slide by Slide

http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/efficacy.html

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Research Papers

Self-efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change
Albert Bandura, Stanford University,
Psychological Reviews, 1977, Vol.84, No.2, 191-215
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/Bandura1977PR.pdf

Current Directions in Self-efficacy Research
Frank Pajares, Emory University

In M. Maehr & P. R. Pintrich (Eds.). Advances in motivation and achievement.
Volume 10, (pp. 1-49). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Full paper available at http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/effchapter.html

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