Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

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.

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

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.