Self-Efficacy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Maddux ◽  
Evan M. Kleiman
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
The Face ◽  
Group Members

The basic premise of self-efficacy theory is that “people’s beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their own actions” (Bandura, 1997, p. vii) are the most important determinants of the behaviors people choose to engage in and how much they persevere in their efforts in the face of obstacles and challenges. Self-efficacy theory also maintains that these efficacy beliefs play a crucial role in psychological adjustment, psychological problems, physical health, as well as professionally guided and self-guided behavioral change strategies. This chapter provides an overview of self-efficacy theory and research by addressing three basic questions: (a) What is self-efficacy? (b) Where do self-efficacy beliefs come from? (c) Why is self-efficacy important? The chapter also discusses “collective efficacy”—group members’ beliefs in their ability to collectively accomplish shared goals.

Self-Efficacy: The Power of Believing You Can

2009 ◽  
pp. 334-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Maddux
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
The Face ◽  
Group Members

The basic premise of self-efficacy theory is that “people's beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their own actions” (Bandura, 1997, p. vii) are the most important determinants of the behaviors people choose to engage in and how much they persevere in their efforts in the face of obstacles and challenges. Self-efficacy theory also maintains that these efficacy beliefs play a crucial role in psychological adjustment, psychological problems, physical health, as well as professionally guided and self-guided behavioral change strategies. This chapter provides an overview of self-efficacy theory and research by addressing three basic questions: (a) What is self-efficacy? (b) Where do self-efficacy beliefs come from? (c) Why is self-efficacy important? The chapter also discusses “collective efficacy”—group members' beliefs in their ability to collectively accomplish shared goals.

scholarly journals Preservice Teachers in Switzerland: Effects of a Thinking Journal on Self-Efficacy Beliefs Regarding Behaviour Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-523
Author(s):  
Malika Susan Dessibourg
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Behaviour Management ◽  
Longitudinal Investigation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Face ◽  
Teaching Situations

How to improve behaviour management education? We take a step towards answering this question by presenting the use of a thinking journal during the high-responsibility placement of 47 preservice teachers. A longitudinal investigation was used to bring empirical evidence that using such a device has a positive impact on their self-efficacy beliefs. A repeated measures ANOVA was conducted and determined a significant difference in self-efficacy beliefs regarding behaviour management across three time points. The usefulness of the thinking journal was also investigated. Results highlight the supportive aspect of this device in the face of difficult teaching situations as well as important divergences between the perceptions of preservice teachers and those of their trainers. The study took place in Switzerland, during the last semester of teacher training.

scholarly journals Teachers’ work ability: a study of relationships between collective efficacy and self-efficacy beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Guidetti ◽  
Sara Viotti ◽  
Andreina Bruno ◽  
Daniela Converso
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Work Ability ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs

scholarly journals “Welcome to our neighbourhood”: Collective confidence in contact facilitates successful mixing in residential settings

2020 ◽  
pp. 136843022096115
Author(s):  
Clifford Stevenson ◽  
Rhiannon Turner ◽  
Sebastiano Costa
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Intergroup Anxiety ◽  
The Past ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Intergroup Encounters ◽  
Using Data

Over the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to the antecedents of intergroup contact and, in particular, self-efficacy to engage in intergroup encounters. Contact self-efficacy has been shown to reduce intergroup anxiety and increase willingness to engage in future contact, and is influenced by the positive contact experiences of other group members. However, this work has neglected the collective nature of self-efficacy and, indeed, has typically counterposed the effects of contact and collective efficacy upon group behaviour. We highlight the potential role that collective efficacy can play in facilitating intergroup contact and propose a new concept to capture this phenomenon: collective confidence in contact (CCIC). Using data from two neighbourhood surveys in contrasting areas of Nottingham City, (UK), we show in our first survey ( n = 124) that CCIC is predicted by group identity and that this, in turn, predicts intergroup contact and feelings. In a second survey ( n = 232), we show that the effects of identity and support on CCIC are further mediated by a reduction in intergroup anxiety. We propose that the concept of CCIC returns the understanding of contact to the intergroup level, thereby allowing issues of group identity and the generalisation of contact effects to be investigated more directly.

scholarly journals Understanding Antecedents of Civic Engagement in the Age of Social Media: From the Perspective of Efficacy Beliefs

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyoung Chung ◽  
KyuJin Shim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines three efficacy beliefs— political self-efficacy, political collective efficacy, and knowledge sharing efficacy—as antecedents of social media use and civic engagement. Employing more than one thousand samples in Singapore, we empirically test (a) a conceptual framework that can provide an understanding of the relationship between the three types of efficacy and civic engagement and (b) the underlying mechanism through which the three types of efficacy beliefs affect civic engagement via social media. The findings suggest that knowledge sharing efficacy was found to play an important role in mediating the relationships between social media and political self-efficacy, political collective efficacy, respectively, which, in turn, influences the social media se.

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