Self-efficacy
Subtitle: the exercise of control
By: Albert Bandura.
Publisher: W.H. Freeman
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 604
Subjects: Self-efficacy; Control (Psychology)
Description: Ideal for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses, or for professional use, the book is based on Bandura's theory that those with high self-efficacy expectancies - the belief that one can achieve what one sets out to do - are healthier, more effective, and generally more successful than those with low self-efficacy expectancies. He begins with a discussion of theory and method: what self-efficacy is and how it can be developed. Bandura then demonstrates how belief in one's capabilities affects development and psychosocial functioning during the course of life, underscoring provocative applications of this work to issues in education, health, psychopathology, athletics, business, and international affairs.

Ideal for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses, or for professional use, the book is based on Bandura's theory that those with high self-efficacy expectancies - the belief that one can achieve what one sets out to do - are healthier, more effective, and generally more successful than those with low self-efficacy expectancies. He begins with a discussion of theory and method: what self-efficacy is and how it can be developed.

Bandura then demonstrates how belief in one's capabilities affects development and psychosocial functioning during the course of life, underscoring provocative applications of this work to issues in education, health, psychopathology, athletics, business, and international affairs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [526]-573) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; label: Chapter 1
title: Theoretical Perspectives
pagenum: 1; title: The Nature of Human Agency
pagenum: 3; title: Human Agency in Triadic Reciprocal Causation
pagenum: 5; title: Determinism and the Exercise of Self-Influence
pagenum: 7; title: Related Views of Personal Efficacy
pagenum: 10; label: Chapter 2
title: The Nature and Structure of Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 36; title: Perceived Self-Efficacy as a Generative Capability
pagenum: 36; title: Active Producers versus Passive Foretellers of Performances
pagenum: 38; title: The Self-Efficacy Approach to Personal Causation
pagenum: 39; title: Multidimensionality of Self-Efficacy Belief Systems
pagenum: 42; title: Self-Efficacy Causality
pagenum: 54; title: Sources of Discordance Between Efficacy Judgment and Action
pagenum: 61; label: Chapter 3
title: Sources of Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 79; title: Enactive Mastery Experience
pagenum: 80; title: Vicarious Experience
pagenum: 86; title: Verbal Persuasion
pagenum: 101; title: Physiological and Affective States
pagenum: 106; title: Integration of Efficacy Information
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter 4
title: Mediating Processes
pagenum: 116; title: Cognitive Processes
pagenum: 116; title: Motivational Processes
pagenum: 122; title: Affective Processes
pagenum: 137; title: Selection Processes
pagenum: 160; label: Chapter 5
title: Developmental Analysis of Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 162; title: Origins of a Sense of Personal Agency
pagenum: 164; title: Familial Sources of Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 168; title: Peers and the Broadening and Validation of Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 173; title: School as an Agency for Cultivating Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 174; title: Growth of Self-Efficacy through Transitional Experiences of Adolescence
pagenum: 177; title: Self-Efficacy Concerns of Adulthood
pagenum: 184; title: Reappraisals of Self-Efficacy with Advancing Age
pagenum: 198; label: Chapter 6
title: Cognitive Functioning
pagenum: 212; title: Students' Cognitive Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 214; title: Teachers' Perceived Efficacy
pagenum: 240; title: Collective School Efficacy
pagenum: 243; label: Chapter 7
title: Health Functioning
pagenum: 259; title: Biological Effects of Perceived Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 262; title: Perceived Self-Efficacy in Health Promoting Behavior
pagenum: 279; title: Prognostic Judgments and Perceived Self-Efficacy
pagenum: 313; label: Chapter 8
title: Clinical Functioning
pagenum: 319; title: Anxiety and Phobic Dysfunctions
pagenum: 319; title: Depression
pagenum: 343; title: Eating Disorders
pagenum: 349; title: Alcohol and Drug Abuse
pagenum: 357; label: Chapter 9
title: Athletic Functioning
pagenum: 369; title: Development of Athletic Skills
pagenum: 370; title: Self-Regulation of Athletic Performance
pagenum: 383; title: Collective Team Efficacy
pagenum: 402; title: Psychobiological Effects of Physical Exercise
pagenum: 407; label: Chapter 10
title: Organizational Functioning
pagenum: 422; title: Career Development and Pursuits
pagenum: 422; title: Mastery of Occupational Roles
pagenum: 439; title: Self-Efficacy in Organizational Decision Making
pagenum: 450; title: Self-Efficacy in Enactment of Occupational Roles
pagenum: 460; title: Collective Organizational Efficacy
pagenum: 468; label: Chapter 11
title: Collective Efficacy
pagenum: 477; title: Gauging Collective Efficacy
pagenum: 478; title: Political Efficacy
pagenum: 482; title: Enablement by Media Modes of Influence
pagenum: 504; title: Enablement for Sociocultural Change
pagenum: 511; title: Underminers of Collective Efficacy
pagenum: 520; title: References
pagenum: 526; title: Name Index
pagenum: 575; title: Subject Index
pagenum: 591