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

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience