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

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers

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

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

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.

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