Self-efficacy has been associated with health outcomes for women with disabilities. Self-efficacy involves our confidence in our ability to achieve desired goals. In other words, we tend to choose to ...

Donna B. Jeffe, Treva K. Rice, Josephine E. A. Boyington, Dabeeru C. Rao, Girardin Jean-Louis, Victor G. Dávila-Román, Anne L. Taylor, Betty S. Pace, Mohamed ...

Standford professor of psychology Albert Bandura developed the theory of self-efficacy to address how an individual perceives his ability to perform a task within a specific context. Self-efficacy is ...

The belief that you can succeed at a challenging task defines your level of self-efficacy. A long-standing concept in social psychology, high self-efficacy shows relationships to a myriad of positive ...

Older adults who prefer to delegate insurance decisions tend to be female and married, to have less Medicare knowledge, and to have someone in their lives they trust to make decisions for them.

Almost a century ago, a plucky little blue engine first I-think-I-canned her way up a mountain in an iconic display of self-efficacy's power. But the term self-efficacy wouldn’t come along for another ...