If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness..

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided..

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time..

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than th….

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them wh….

After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By stick….

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities..

One cannot afford to be a realist..

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing..

What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their tho….

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social chang….

Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations..

People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking..

People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the ….

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of li….

Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Chi….

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them..

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others..

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure..