Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

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

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

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