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

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.

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

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

Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.