Maternal self-efficacy for breast-feeding may contribute to success in breast-feeding. This study aimed to increase breast-feeding self-efficacy and actual breast-feeding through an intervention based ...

This is the first in a two-part series from Albert Bandura, a pioneer in the field of social cognitive theory and the most cited living psychologist in the world. The David Starr Jordan Professor ...

How do you feel when you face a challenging situation? Do you feel self-confident and believe you have whatever it takes to succeed, or do you doubt your ability to tackle the task ahead of you? The ...

According to Bandura’s social cognitive theory, a student’s self-efficacy influences his or her academic and career decisions, and his or her performance outcomes; as such, a student’s self-efficacy ...

Believing you can accomplish a task is the first step to doing so, and that is what self-efficacy is all about. On the flip side, people rarely attempt tasks they do not think they can handle.

Self-efficacy and collective teacher efficacy are popular topics these days. Sometimes when words in education become this popular, they are at risk of becoming buzzwords, which often happens when ...

"Believe in yourself" has been etched into motivational posters, graduation speeches, and just about every self-help book in the $13 billion personal development industry. But it turns out, this isn’t ...