[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons
Albert BanduraThe satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
Albert BanduraSuccess and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
Albert BanduraPeople who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
Albert BanduraSocial cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object
Albert Bandura