Self-Efficacy by Ralf Schwarzer - 9781138996021

Taylor & Francis

The goal of this book is to illustrate the change in emphasis during the 1980s from one dominated by a behaviouristic perspective to one much more congnitive in its emphasis. It is aimed at research psychologists and graduate-level psychology students. > I: Self-Efficacy and Human Functioning; Exercise of Personal Agency Through the Self-Efficacy Mechanism; Two Dimensions of Perceived Self-Efficacy: Cognitive Control and Behavioral Coping Ability; Expectancies as Mediators Between Recipient Characteristics and Social Support Intentions; II: Self-Efficacy and Human Development; Perceived Control: Motivation, Coping, and Development; Adults' Expectancies About Development and its Controllability: Enhancing Self-Efficacy by Social Comparison; Personal Control Over Development: Some Developmental Implications of Self-Efficacy; III: Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Emotion; Perceived Self-Efficacy and Phobic Disability; Self-Efficacy and Depression; Self-Efficacy as a Resource Factor in Streg