There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects