The Effects Of Outcome Expectancies On Performance

Perceived Self-efficacy Also Shapes Causal Thinking. In Seeking Solutions To Difficult Problems, Those Who Perceived Themselves As Highly Efficacious Are Inclined To Attribute Their Failures To Insufficient Effort, Whereas Those Of Comparable Skills But Lower Perceived Self-efficacy Ascribe Their Failures To Deficient Ability

People Judge Their Capabilities Partly By Comparing Their Performances With Those Of Others

Convictions That Outcomes Are Determined By One's Own Actions Can Be Either Demoralizing Or Heartening, Depending On The Level Of Self-judged Efficacy. People Who Regard Outcomes As Personally Determined, But Who Lack The Requisite Skills, Would Experience Low Self-efficacy And View The Activities With A Sense Of Futility

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

One Cannot Afford To Be A Realist.