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

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

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

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

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

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry