Confidence & Self Efficacy

• Self confidence: belief that you can perform a specific behavior

  • self confidence & performance follow the same inverted U as arousal & performance

  • trait self confidence: degree of certainty individuals usually possess about ability to succeed

  • state self confidence: belief of certainty individuals possess at a particular moment

• Self-fulfilling prophecy: expecting something to happen actually helps cause it to happen

• Negative self-fulfilling prophecy: expectations of failure lead to failure

Levels of Confidence

• lack of confidence

• optimal

• overconfidence

Bandura’s Self Efficacy

• self efficacy effects activities, level of effort, and persistence

• people with higher self efficacy set higher goals

Building Self Confidence

• Ensure performance accomplishments

• Act confidently

• Think confidently

• Use imagery

• Physical conditioning

• Prepare