Perceived Self-inefficacy Predicts Avoidance Of Academic Activities

Perceived Self-efficacy And Beliefs About The Locus Of Outcome Causality Must Be Distinguished

Ironically, It Is The Talented Who Have High Aspirations, Which Are Possible But Exceedingly Difficult To Realize, Who Are Especially Vulnerable To Self-dissatisfaction Despite Notable Achievements.

Stringent Standards Of Self-evaluation [can] Make Otherwise Objective Successes Seem To Be Personal Failures

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.

People's Conceptions About Themselves And The Nature Of Things Are Developed And Verified Through Four Different Processes: Direct Experience Of The Effects Produced By Their Actions, Vicarious Experience Of The Effects Produced By Somebody Else's Actions, Judgments Voiced By Others, And Derivation Of Further Knowledge From What They Already Know By Using Rules Of Inference