Self efficacy
Αυτοαποτελεσματικότητα
Your belief that you can bring about one particular result. It is specific rather than general, so it is not the same as confidence, and it is built mainly from your own record of having handled something demanding rather than from what you were told about yourself.
How to spot it
Ask what you did in the last month that you were not sure you could do. If nothing comes back, the belief has had nothing to feed on, and no amount of encouragement will stand in for it.
The research behind the term
The term is not our invention. It comes from published research, and what follows is what that research found — our own synthesis of the published abstract, not a translation of the original.
Bandura, A. (1997). Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control — πηγή
This work presents the concept of self-efficacy, that is, a person's belief that they can attain a goal. High self-efficacy is associated with greater persistence, better learning and higher performance.
Practised in
The term does not stay a definition. It appears inside missions where the pattern happens in real time and you have to recognise it as it happens to you.
The Easier Task
Sources
Every claim on this page maps to published research. The citations link to the original source.
- Bandura, A. (1997). Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control — Source on macmillanlearning.com