It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

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.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes