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  2. Self-efficacy - Wikipedia

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    Studies showed that school environment influences the way the four sources of self-efficacy shape students' academic self-efficacy. For example, in different school systems - Democratic schools , Waldorf schools and mainstream public schools - there were differences in the way academic self-efficacy changed along grade levels, as well as ...

  3. Social cognitive theory - Wikipedia

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    Self-efficacy comes from four sources: "performance accomplishments, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological states". [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 1986, Bandura published his second book, Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory which introduced the triadic causation model. [ 12 ]

  4. Positive psychological capital - Wikipedia

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    PsyCap has positive correlation with desired employee attitudes, behaviors and performance. [9]A meta-analysis of 51 independent samples found strong, significant, positive relationship between PsyCap and desirable attitudes (e.g., satisfaction, commitment, and well-being), behaviors (e.g., citizenship) and performance (self, supervisor rated, and objective) and a negative relationship with ...

  5. Core self-evaluations - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, people with low core self-evaluations will have a negative appraisal of themselves and will lack confidence. The concept of core self-evaluations was first examined by Judge, Locke, and Durham (1997) [1] [2] and involves four personality dimensions: locus of control, neuroticism, generalized self-efficacy, and self-esteem. The trait ...

  6. Albert Bandura - Wikipedia

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    Bandura was born in Mundare, Alberta, an open town of roughly four hundred inhabitants, as the youngest child, in a family of six.The limitations of education in a remote town such as this caused Bandura to become independent and self-motivated in terms of learning, and these primarily developed traits proved very helpful in his lengthy career. [10]

  7. Self-Efficacy (book) - Wikipedia

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    Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control is the best attempt so far at organizing, summarizing, and distilling meaning from this vast and diverse literature," [3]: 158 and that "Self-Efficacy is one of the most significant books of the last 50 years. It is essential reading for psychologists and will also be of immense value to teachers, school ...

  8. Behavioural change theories - Wikipedia

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    Self-efficacy [2] is an individual's impression of their own ability to perform a demanding or challenging task such as facing an exam or undergoing surgery. This impression is based upon factors like the individual's prior success in the task or in related tasks, the individual's physiological state, and outside sources of persuasion.

  9. Well-being contributing factors - Wikipedia

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    A study was conducted by Siamak Khodarahimi to determine the roles of gender and age on positive psychology constructs – psychological hardiness, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and happiness – among 200 Iranian adolescents and 200 young adults who were questioned through various tests. The study found that the males of the sample ...