SELF-EFFICACY: HOW TO MAXIMIZE IN HEALING

RPTA 169

SELF-EFFICACY DEFINED 

Albert Bandura has defined self-efficacy:

• One's belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task.

• One's sense of self-efficacy can play a major role in how one approaches goals, tasks, and challenges.

Define Self Efficacy

Belief in one capability to achieve a goal or an outcome

Having capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments.

Is having the belief that students have skills that they can rely on to help them navigate life and reach their goals

Refers to a judgment a student makes about his/her ability to accomplish a specific future task

TWO ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF SELF-EFFICACY

1. Believe that ability can grow with effort. 

2. Believe in your ability to meet specific goals and/or expectations.

SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY: ALBERT BANDURA 

• individuals learn from one another through:

  • Observation

  • Imitation

  • Modeling

This theory is referred to as a bridge between behaviorist and cognitive learning theories because it encompasses attention, memory, and. motivation

BIG 5 TRAIT Personality Traits

• Human behavioral researchers often use “five-factor model” to evaluate what are thought to be 5 traits of one’s personality. 

• Personality assessed in terms of general descriptors of activities:

1. Openness to experience

2. Conscientiousness

3. Extraversion-introversion

4. Agreeableness

5. Neuroticism.

Research Links of BIG 5 Traits

1. Conscientiousness facilitates task engagement and effort, fosters higher self-efficacy beliefs (Brown, Lent, Telander, & Tramayne, 2011; Chen, Casper, & Cortina, 2001). 

2. Openness shifts perceptions of demands into challenges to be tackled, broadening task engagement and self-efficacy (Sanchez-Cardona et al., 2012). 

3. Agreeableness facilitates entry into new activities, mastery leads to increased self-efficacy (Caprara, Alessandri, Di Giunta, Panerai, & Eisenberg, 2009). 

4. Extraversion heightens positive reactions from others, increasing self-efficacy (Judge & Ilies, 2002). 

5. Neuroticism increases anxiety, suppresses or reduces self-efficacy (Schmitt, 2008). 

GROWTH MINDSET VS. FIXED MINDSET

DR. CAROL DWECK

SLIDES

AGENCY:

To exert intentional influence over one’s functioning and the course of events by one’s actions.

• Interplay of intrapersonal influences

• Behavior(s) individuals engage in

• Environmental forces impinging on them

3 types of environments: selected & activated 

• 1. Imposed 

• 2. Selected 

• 3. Constructed

TRIAD; CODETREMINATION 

Human Functioning is a product / interplay of: 

1. intrapersonal influences

2. behaviors individuals engage in

3. the environmental forces that impinge upon the

IDENTITY BASED HABITS

• 1. Set a goal, “I want to be healthier, I want to do a run, I want to______” .

  • Be very specific: “I want to lose 20 #, I want to do a 5K, I want to graduate on….

    • The goal is the outcome … what is your process? 

• 2. HOW are you achieving this goal? 

  • Identity based habits: a way of seeing oneself – what you believe about yourself (self-efficacy). 

    • “I am the kind of person who…”, 

• See yourself in a new way. 

  • Pay attention to the outcome and process but priories  “What do I believe about myself?”.