Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact