SELF-EFFICACY P [Paperback]

Albert Bandura's highly anticipated examination of his vastly influential work on self-efficacy is now available. The result of over 20 years of research by this renowned psychologist, the book articulates comprehensively Bandura's theory that believing one can achieve what one sets out to do results in a healthier, more effective, and generally more successful life.

1. Theoretical Perspectives
    The Nature of Human Agency
    Human Agency in Triadic Reciprocal Causation
    Determinism and the Exercise of Self-Influence
    Related Views of Personal Efficacy
    
  2. The Nature and Structure of Self-Efficacy
    Perceived Self-Efficacy as a Generative Capability
    Active Producers versus Passive Foretellers of Performances
    The Self-Efficacy Approach to
    Personal Causation
    Multidimensionality of Self-Efficacy Belief Systems
    Self-Efficacy Causality
    Sources of Discordance Between
    Efficacy Judgment and Action
    
  3. Sources of Self-Efficacy
    Enactive Mastery Experience
    Vicarious Experience
    Verbal Persuasion
    Physiological and Affective States
    Integration of Efficacy Information
    
  4. Mediating Processes
    Cognitive Processes
    Motivational Processes
    Affective Processes
    Selection Processes
    
  5. Developmental Analysis of Self-lÃ-