Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. |
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time. |
The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism. |
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. |
This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most theories of psychology were formed before these revolutionary technological advanc |
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. |
We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. |