Self%20Efficacy

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Self Efficacy
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What is Self-Efficacy?

• Capability to produce performance
• Influence over events that affect lives
• Feel, think, motivate

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Processes

• Cognitive
• Motivation
• Affective
• Selection of activity

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High Assurance in capabilities

• Difficult tasks Challenges to be mastered
• Intrinsic interest
• Engaged in activities
• Set challenging goals

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• Heighten and sustain effort in the face of
  failure
• Failure insufficient effort, deficient
  knowledge and skills

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Low self efficacy

• Doubt capabilities
• Avoid difficult tasks, personal threats
• Low aspirations
• Weak commitment to goals
• External agents

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Threatening situations

• Exercise control
• Personal accomplishment
• Reduced stress
• Lower vulnerability to depression

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Threatening situations

• Dwell on personal deficiencies
• Obstacles
• Possible adverse outcomes
• Give up when difficulties are encountered
• Insufficient performance deficient aptitude

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Beliefs about efficacy

• Mastery experiences
• Perseverance
• Effort
• Overcoming obstacles
• 2. Vicarious experiences
• Modeling based on perceived similarity
• Models transmit knowledge, skills, strategies

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Beliefs about efficacy

• 3. Social persuasion
• Possess the capabilities to master activities
• Effort, try to succeed
• Devp. Skills and sense of personal efficacy
• 4. Structure situations to bring success
• Self improvement success

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Efficacy Activated Processes

• Cognitive processes
• Motivational processes
• Attribution
• Expectancy
• Goals

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Efficacy Activated Processes

• Cognitive processes
• Motivational processes
• Attribution
• Expectancy
• Goals
• 3. Affective processes
• Coping capabilities
• Guided mastery

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Coping Capabilities

• Stress, depression, motivation
• Control over stressors
• Control over threats
• Depression, avoidance behavior, anxiety
• Mastery experiences
• Devp resiliance

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Selection Processes

• People avoid activities they believe exceed their
  coping capabilities
• Undertake challenges they are capable of handling
• Choices of environment

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Optimistic Self-beliefs of efficacy

• Overestimation of self
• Innovation
• Suffer repeated rejections
• Collective efficacy strength of groups

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Development and Exercise of Self-Efficacy over
the Lifespan

• Origins
• Familial
• Peer influence
• School
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Reappraisals

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Motivation

• Choice---Effort---Persistence

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Achievement
Autonomy
Self determination
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Motivation

• Intrinsic

• Extrinsic