People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

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

Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

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.

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

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