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Role of affective self-regulatory efficacy in diverse spheres of psychosocial functioning.
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Perceived empathic self-efficacy functioned as a generalized contributor to psychosocial functioning and was accompanied by prosocial behavior and low involvement in delinquency but increased vulnerability to depression in adolescent females.Abstract:
This prospective study with 464 older adolescents (14 to 19 years at Time 1; 16 to 21 years at Time 2) tested the structural paths of influence through which perceived self-efficacy for affect regulation operates in concert with perceived behavioral efficacy in governing diverse spheres of psychosocial functioning. Self-efficacy to regulate positive and negative affect is accompanied by high efficacy to manage one's academic development, to resist social pressures for antisocial activities, and to engage oneself with empathy in others' emotional experiences. Perceived self-efficacy for affect regulation essentially operated mediationally through the latter behavioral forms of self-efficacy rather than directly on prosocial behavior, delinquent conduct, and depression. Perceived empathic self-efficacy functioned as a generalized contributor to psychosocial functioning. It was accompanied by prosocial behavior and low involvement in delinquency but increased vulnerability to depression in adolescent females.read more
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Social Cognitive Theory in Cultural Context
TL;DR: Social cognitive theory adopts an agentic perspective to human development, adaptation, and change as discussed by the authors, and distinguishes between three modes of agency: personal agency exercised individually; proxy agency in which people secure desired outcomes by influencing others to act on their behalf; and collective agency, where people act in concert to shape their future. But all agentic modes are needed to make it through the day whatever the cultural context in which one resides.
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Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review
TL;DR: This empirical review reveals compassion to have distinct appraisal processes attuned to undeserved suffering; distinct signaling behavior related to caregiving patterns of touch, posture, and vocalization; and a phenomenological experience and physiological response that orients the individual to social approach.
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Sensemaking in crisis and change: Inspiration and insights from Weick (1988)
Sally Maitlis,Scott Sonenshein +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the core themes that underlie sensemaking in crisis situations: shared meanings and emotion, and examine when and how shared meaning and emotion are more and less likely to enable more helpful or adaptive sensemaking.
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Self-efficacy, social support and well-being The mediating role of optimism
TL;DR: In this paper, a specific hypothesis was tested: self-efficacy expectations, as a representation of a capable self, and perceived social support, as representation of helpful world, shape optimism which is an outcome expectation.
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