People's beliefs about their capabailities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives.
-Albert Bandura
Babies are not born with a sense of self efficacy, but learn through manipulation of their environment and reaction to that manipulation. Self efficacy begins in infancy, continues throughout childhood, into adulthood, and throughout ones life.
Belief that personal efficacy is built by successful experiences. However, perserverance through some difficult experiences are useful in developing resilience,
Belief that if someone simialr to you can be successful in a particular endeavor then so can you.
~If they can do it then so can I!
3. Social Persuasion
Belief that self efficacy can be effected both positively and negatively by verbal persuasion. Instilling positive self efficacy by this means alone is difficult, yet undermining it is easier.
This source of self efficacy seems especially important for educators. Positive social persuasion causes people to work harder to be successful. When negative persuasion is spewed then people tend to focus on their personal deficits. People that are successful at social persuasion of others help to faciliate/scaffold success for those they are helping.
4. Stress Reactions
Belief that somantic/emotional states play a role in judging personal capabilities. Ones mood effects judgement of personal efficacy. This source of self efficacy plays a large role in health and physical activities.
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
