[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

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

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge