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This document discusses self-efficacy, which refers to people's beliefs in their ability to achieve goals and manage their environment. Self-efficacy influences cognitive, motivational, affective, and selection processes. It facilitates goal setting, effort, persistence, and recovery from failures. Self-efficacy is an important motivator that influences performance in tasks and perseverance. In education, students with higher self-efficacy are more motivated to learn, more likely to face challenges, and better able to manage stress.

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This document discusses self-efficacy, which refers to people's beliefs in their ability to achieve goals and manage their environment. Self-efficacy influences cognitive, motivational, affective, and selection processes. It facilitates goal setting, effort, persistence, and recovery from failures. Self-efficacy is an important motivator that influences performance in tasks and perseverance. In education, students with higher self-efficacy are more motivated to learn, more likely to face challenges, and better able to manage stress.

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RRL SECOND VARIABLE

Self-efficacy

People's perceptions of their ability to achieve predetermined levels of

performance that exert control over circumstances that affect their daily lives are known

as perceived self-efficacy. Self-efficacy beliefs ascertain how people think, feel, behave,

and motivate themselves. The four major processes are cognitive, motivational,

affective, and selection processes (Bandura & Wessels, 1994). Furthermore, self-

efficacy can be considered a resilience factor as it facilitates goal setting, effort

investment, persistence in facing barriers, and recovery from setbacks (Schwarzer &

Luszczynska, 2008).

Hence, Self-efficacy does not refer to your abilities but rather to how firmly you

believe you can use your abilities to work and strive toward goals. Self-efficacious

adolescents perform better at school and similarly self-efficacious adults at work

(Maddux & Kleiman, 2023). It is one of the most powerful motivational predictors of how

well a person is skillful to perform in almost any attempt and is a strong determinant of

their endeavor, perseverance, and strategizing, as well as task performance (Heslin &

Klehe, 2006). Additionally, in Bandura's social cognitive theory, self-efficacy is a

personal construct that affects and is influenced by behaviors and social/environmental

variables (Schunk & DiBenedetto, 2021).


Self-efficacy is an important variable because it influences students’ motivation

and learning (Van Dinther et al., 2011). Heightened learning self-efficacy enhances

motivation to acquire knowledge and skills (Schunk, 1985). It can affect the choice of

tasks and perseverance while doing them. In other words, students with low self-

efficacy are more likely to be afraid of doing their tasks, dodging, delaying, and giving

them up soon. In contrast, those with high levels of self-efficacy are more presumably to

depend on themselves when faced with complex issues to find a solution to the

problem, as well as being patient, making more efforts, and persisting longer to

overcome the challenges (Hayat et al., 2020). In addition, self-efficacy is an important

variable in controlling stress and it is a protection factor against the impact of day-to-day

stressors at university (Freire et al., 2020).


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Schwarzer, R., & Luszczynska, A. (2008). Self efficacy.

Maddux, J. E. & Kleiman, E. (2023). Self-efficacy. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener


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Industrial/Organizational Psychology, SG Rogelberg, ed, 2, 705-708.

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Advances in motivation science (Vol. 8, pp. 153-179). Elsevier.

Van Dinther, M., Dochy, F., & Segers, M. (2011). Factors affecting students’ self-
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Schunk, D. H. (1985). Self‐efficacy and classroom learning. Psychology in the Schools,


22(2), 208-223.

Hayat, A.A., Shateri, K., Amini, M., & Shokrpour, N. (2020). Relationships between
academic self-efficacy, learning-related emotions, and metacognitive learning strategies
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Freire, C., Ferradás, M. D. M., Regueiro, B., Rodríguez, S., Valle, A., & Núñez, J. C.
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