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.

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

People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.