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

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

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

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

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.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

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