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.

When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.