Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
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...Bandura defined the concept of self-efficacy as the conviction that one can successfully execute a given behaviour required to produce certain outcomes (Bandura, 1977a, p. 193)....
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...…as a domain-specific variable (e.g., Schwarzer & Fuchs, 1995; expectations towards changing risk behaviour), and as a task-specific variable to predict circumscribed behaviour, for example, to overcome snake phobias (see Bandura, 1977a), or to solve algebra problems (see, e.g., Pajares, 1996)....
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...As already noted by Bandura (1977a), people with a high feeling of selfefficacy tend to make favourable attributions of their own performance to factors within their own personality....
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...In seeking a motivational explanation of exploratory and manipulative behavior, White (1959) postulated an "effectance motive," which is conceptualized as an intrinsic drive for transactions with the environment ....
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