People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

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

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

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

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