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

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions

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

When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

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