Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances