Self-efficacy
Main
Self-efficacy is the belief an individual has in his or her capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to attain certain goals (Bandura, 1982[1]). Self-efficacy is composed of personal exposure to success and failure, modelling others behavior, verbal encouragement or discouragement and stress and other emotional responses. Importantly self-efficacy refers mainly to individuals’ assessments of whether they can carry out the necessary actions to produce the outcomes they seek, rather than an assessment of whether the outcomes themselves are a likely consequence of those actions.
Conceptualizations
Research Self-efficacy
Among social science faculty members Pasupathy and Siwatu (2013)[2] have studied the effect of research self-efficacy on productivity of scientists. They find moderate effects of domain specific research self-efficacy on the number of publications of researchers.
Sources
- ↑ Bandura, A. (1982). Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. American Psychologist 37(2), 122–147. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.37.2.122
- ↑ Pasupathy, R. & Siwatu, K. O. (2013). An Investigation of Research Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Research Productivity among Faculty Members at an Emerging Research University in the USA. Higher Education Research & Development 33(4), 728–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2013.863843
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