📓 self efficacy

https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470479216.corpsy0836

• self-efficacy
  • one's belief in one's ability to influence events that affect one's life

• sources of self efficacy (and anti self efficacy):
  • mastery experiences, ie. direct experiences of success (or failure)
    • (+ see progress)
  • social modeling, ie. see similar people succeed (or fail)
  • social persuasion, ie. encouragement by someone else, ie. "you can do it"
    • related: external belief (ex. parent's believing a student is capable)
  • correct misperceptions of somatic feedback, attribution error
    • one's belief in the implications of physiological response that alters self-efficacy
    • ex. for physical tasks: see fatigue as low efficacy, but it is normal
    • ex. "butterfly in stomach" making one more nervous
    • correctly attribute success, failure to one's actions or chance, etc.
  • increase capacity
    • ex. for physical tasks: build strength, stamina
    • ex. for other tasks: emotional resilience

• one only imagines possibilities they believe to be possible
• one is only motivated to pursue what they think they can achieve
• one who believes they can't handle potential threats experience anxiety arousal
  • dwell on deficiencies...