1. Self Efficacy

2. What is Self-Efficacy? Capability to produce performance
Influence over events that affect lives
Feel, think, motivate

3. Processes
Cognitive
Motivation
Affective
Selection of activity

4. High Assurance in capabilities
Difficult tasks = Challenges to be mastered
Intrinsic interest
Engaged in activities
Set challenging goals

5. Heighten and sustain effort in the face of failure
Failure = insufficient effort, deficient knowledge and skills

6. Low self efficacy Doubt capabilities
Avoid difficult tasks, personal threats
Low aspirations
Weak commitment to goals
External agents

7. Threatening situations
Exercise control
Personal accomplishment
Reduced stress
Lower vulnerability to depression

8. Threatening situations
Dwell on personal deficiencies
Obstacles
Possible adverse outcomes
Give up when difficulties are encountered
Insufficient performance = deficient aptitude

9. Beliefs about efficacy
Mastery experiences
Perseverance
Effort
Overcoming obstacles
2. Vicarious experiences
Modeling based on perceived similarity
Models transmit knowledge, skills, strategies

10. Beliefs about efficacy
3. Social persuasion
Possess the capabilities to master activities
Effort, try to succeed
Devp. Skills and sense of personal efficacy
4. Structure situations to bring success
Self improvement= success

11. Efficacy Activated Processes
Cognitive processes
Motivational processes
Attribution
Expectancy
Goals

12. Efficacy Activated Processes
Cognitive processes
Motivational processes
Attribution
Expectancy
Goals
3. Affective processes
Coping capabilities
Guided mastery

13. Coping Capabilities Stress, depression, motivation
Control over stressors
Control over threats
Depression, avoidance behavior, anxiety
Mastery experiences
Devp resiliance

14. Selection Processes
People avoid activities they believe exceed their coping capabilities
Undertake challenges they are capable of handling
Choices of environment

15. Optimistic Self-beliefs of efficacy
Overestimation of self
Innovation
Suffer repeated rejections
Collective efficacy = strength of groups

16. Development and Exercise of Self-Efficacy over the Lifespan
Origins
Familial
Peer influence
School
Adolescence
Adulthood
Reappraisals

17. Choice---Effort---Persistence
Motivation
Choice---Effort---Persistence

18. Achievement
Autonomy
Self determination

19. Motivation
Intrinsic
Extrinsic