Disruptive Implications of Legal Positivism’s Social Efficacy Thesis

This study extends previous psychosocial literature (Bandura et al., 2001, 2003) by examining a structural model of the self-regulatory mechanisms governing the acceptability and likelihood of cheating in a sport context. Male and female adolescents (N = 804), aged 15–20 years, took part in this study. Negative affective self-regulatory efficacy influenced the acceptability and likelihood of cheating through the mediating role of moral disengagement, in females and males. Affective efficacy positively influenced prosocial behavior through moral disengagement or through resistive self-regulatory efficacy and social efficacy, in both groups. The direct effects of affective efficacy on beliefs about cheating were only evident in females. These results extend the findings of Bandura et al. (2001, 2003) to the sport context and suggest that affective and resistive self-regulatory efficacy operate in concert in governing adolescents’ moral disengagement and transgressive behaviors in sport.

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Alpha brain oscillations, approach attitude, and locus of control affect self-perception of social efficacy in cooperative joint-action

Frontiers in Life Science ◽

10.1080/21553769.2018.1465858 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 11-25

Author(s):

Michela Balconi ◽

Maria Elide Vanutelli

Keyword(s):

Locus Of Control ◽

Joint Action ◽

Brain Oscillations ◽

Self Perception ◽

Social Efficacy

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A Study of the Wellbeing of Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Sibling Efficacy, Positive and Negative Affect, and Coping Strategies

International Journal of Psychological Studies ◽

10.5539/ijps.v10n2p102 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 102

Author(s):

Emily Habelrih ◽

Richard Hicks ◽

Daisy Vanstone

Keyword(s):

Negative Affect ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Typically Developing ◽

Academic Efficacy ◽

Typically Developing Children ◽

Children With Asd ◽

Social Efficacy ◽

Spectrum Disorders ◽

And Coping

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) include pervasive developmental disorders characterised by communication deficits, difficulty with social understanding, and repetitive behaviors. Few studies have compared the efficacy, affect, and coping strategies of siblings of typically developing children with siblings of children with ASD. Typically developing siblings are understood to be at an increased risk of externalising and internalising problems. The current study examined whether siblings of children with ASD differed in levels of efficacy, affect, and coping from siblings of typically developing children. Participants (156) included an Australia-wide sample involving 82 siblings of children with ASD, and 74 siblings of typically developing individuals. Participants completed The Self-Efficacy Scale for Children (assessing social, emotional, and academic efficacy), the Positive and Negative Affect Scales, the Brief COPE Scale, and other scales as part of the larger study. Results showed that ASD siblings reported lower scores on emotional efficacy, social efficacy, and positive affect, and higher negative affect, than did the comparison group siblings. However, no significant differences were found in coping strategies or academic efficacy between the ASD siblings and the typically developing siblings. Consistent with earlier research findings, there are perceived negative effects or risks from being a sibling of an individual with ASD, suggesting support interventions may assist the development of emotional and social efficacy and increased positive affect for these individuals.

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Boys, Girls, and Kodaks

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication ◽

10.1163/18739865-00802005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (2-3) ◽

pp. 215-255

Author(s):

Lucie Ryzova

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Social ◽

Social Efficacy

This essay looks at a little studied genre of photographic albums—‘peer albums’—created by young Egyptian men and women through the middle decades of the twentieth century. These strongly gendered albums are characterized by the visual exclusion of social seniors, and were typically kept hidden from them. As photographic objects embedded in particular social relationships and contexts, these albums speak of how a classed and gendered self emerged in early- to mid-twentieth-century Egypt through a range of practices, of which photography-making (and album-making) was part. But photography also had its own agency in engendering new practices. The social efficacy of vernacular photographs was predicated on a combination of photographic indexicality and performativity. Through the making of such albums, young modernity-claiming Egyptians were asserting, performing and negotiating the parameters of their middle-class urbanity, their emerging positions as modern gendered subjects and as adolescents. Together with the range of peer activities in which they were embedded, these albums represented zones of autonomy free from patriarchal control, but still nested within larger patriarchal structures. Ultimately these albums show how particular historical subjects come to be through engagements with objects; and how patriarchy and individualism construct each other.

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Social Efficacy by Responsible Change Management

Systemic Practice and Action Research ◽

10.1007/s11213-013-9305-9 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 26 (6) ◽

pp. 579-588 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Laura Pană

Keyword(s):

Change Management ◽

Social Efficacy

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The Hermeneutics of Omens: The Bankruptcy of Moral Cosmology in Western Han China (206 bce–8 ce)

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ◽

10.1017/s1356186315000048 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 439-459 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

LIANG CAI

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

Political Power ◽

Moral Agent ◽

Moral Competence ◽

Social Closure ◽

The Social ◽

Social Efficacy ◽

Political Conditions ◽

The Common ◽

Secret Knowledge

AbstractStudents of Chinese intellectual history are familiar with moral cosmology developed in the Han era, a theory that alleges that ru use omens to admonish the emperor, and thereby to constrain and compete with his absolute political power. This thesis, in theory, is convincing; in actuality it is not. This article questions the autonomous power of omen discourse. Focusing on the socio-political conditions in which this discourse functioned, it demonstrates that, in real politics, the enactment of omen interpretation had nothing to do with restraining the power of the throne, but evolved with bloody factional struggles. Replacing the secret knowledge of diviners and astrologers with the common cultural heritage—the classics—and transforming the mysterious otherworldly spirits into a moral agent, ru successfully defeated the technical specialists and became the primary operators of the omen interpretation enterprise. The theoretical innovation that contributed to ru's success, however, undermined their chance of building a social closure both to close off competition and to secure their interpretative authority. As numerous historical cases show, neither the ru classics nor the moral competence of the speaker add to the social efficacy of omen explanation: without monopolised knowledge, standardised hermeneutic rules, or institutionalised positions, omen discourse, rather than contesting political power, became its servant.

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