Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

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.

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

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

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation