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Escaping Homelessness: The Influences of Self-Efficacy and Time Perspective on Coping With Homelessness1
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In this article, the authors explored whether self-efficacy and time perspective of homeless adults living in a shelter affected their coping strategies related to obtaining housing and employment and found that participants with high selfefficacy searched more for housing and employed more and stayed at the shelter for a shorter duration.Abstract:
This study explored whether self-efficacy and time perspective of homeless adults (N = 82) living in a shelter affected their coping strategies related to obtaining housing and employment. Participants with high self-efficacy searched more for housing and employment and stayed at the shelter for a shorter duration, whereas participants with low selfefficacy were more likely to request an extension of their stay at the shelter. Those high on future orientation had shorter durations of homelessness and were more likely to enroll in school and to report gaining positive benefits from their predicament. whereas those with a high present orientation had more avoidant coping strategies. Despite the predictive power of self-efficacy and future orientation of proactive search behaviors, there were no predictors of obtaining stable housing, which is a scarce resource in the area. However, a high present orientation predicted obtaining temporary housing. A present temporal perspective may be adaptive in finding short-term solutions to an unstable situation, such as homelessness. The role of time perspective in crisis situations is discussed, as well as the severe environmental constraints on the exercise of personal control over reality dictated by social, economic, and political forces.read more
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Perceived Behavioral Control, Self-Efficacy, Locus of Control, and the Theory of Planned Behavior
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that perceived behavioral control over performance of a behavior, though comprised of separable components that reflect beliefs about self-efficacy and about controllability, can nevertheless be considered a unitary latent variable in a hierarchical factor model.
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Putting Time in perspective : A valid, reliable individual-differences metric
Philip G. Zimbardo,John Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZPI) as mentioned in this paper is a measure assessing personal variations in time perspective profiles and specific time perspective biases, and it has been shown to have convergent, divergent, discriminant and predictive validity.
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Social cognitive theory of gender development and differentiation.
Kay Bussey,Albert Bandura +1 more
TL;DR: This article presents the social cognitive theory of gender role development and functioning, which specifies how gender conceptions are constructed from the complex mix of experiences and how they operate in concert with motivational and self-regulatory mechanisms to guide gender-linked conduct throughout the life course.
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Self-Efficacy Beliefs as Shapers of Children's Aspirations and Career Trajectories.
TL;DR: A structural model of the network of sociocognitive influences that shape children's career aspirations and trajectories is tested andalyses of gender differences reveal that perceived occupational self-efficacy predicts traditionality of career choice.
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Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective
TL;DR: The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the essence of humanness as mentioned in this paper, which is characterized by the temporal extension of agency through intentionality and forethought, self-regulation by self-reactive influence, and self-reflectiveness about one's capabilities, quality of functioning, and the meaning and purpose of life pursuits.
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Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control
TL;DR: SelfSelf-Efficacy (SE) as discussed by the authors is a well-known concept in human behavior, which is defined as "belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments".
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Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, models of Human Nature and Casualty are used to model human nature and human health, and a set of self-regulatory mechanisms are proposed. But they do not consider the role of cognitive regulators.
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Delay of gratification in children
TL;DR: The nature of this type of future-oriented self-control and the psychological processes that underlie it are analyzed and the particular types of preschool delay situations diagnostic for predicting aspects of cognitive and social competence later in life are specified.
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