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

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

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

People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

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

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process