Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies [Paperback]

The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change.Self-efficacy in Changing Societies analyzes the diverse ways in which beliefs of personal efficacy operate within a network of sociocultural influences to shape life paths. The chapters, by internationally known experts, cover such concepts as infancy and personal agency, competency through the life span, the role of family, and cross-cultural factors.The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change that will be of considerable interest to people in the fields of developmental psychology, education, health and sociology.Self-efficacy in Changing Societies analyzes the diverse ways in which beliefs of personal efficacy operate within a network of sociocultural influences to shape life paths. The chapters, by internationally known experts, cover such concepts as infancy and personal agency, competency through the life span, the role of family, and cross-cultural factors.The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change that will be of considerable interest to people in the fields of developmental psychology, education, health and sociology.Adolescents' beliefs in their personal control affects their psychological well-being and the direction of their lives. Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies analyzes the diverse ways in which beliefs of personal efficacy operate within a network of sociocultural influences to shape life paths. The chapters, written by internationally known experts, cover such concepts as infancy and personal agency, competency through the life span, the role of family, and cross-cultural factors.1. Exercise of personal and collective efficacy in changing societies Albert Bandura; 2. Life trajectories in changing societies Glen Elder; 3. Developmental analysis of control beliefs August Flammer; 4. Impact of family processes on self-efficacy Klaus A. Schneewind; 5. Cross-cultural perspectives on self-efficacy beliefs Gabriele Oettingen; 6. SlÃ^