Quotes about self
self media regulation
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed. Alastair Campbell
self males alpha-male
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
self views skills
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility Albert Bandura
self outcomes causality
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
self people may
Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully
self tasks levels
Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy
self action belief
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
self evaluation standards
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
self-esteem insecure people
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
self reactions self-efficacy
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others
self skills achievement
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
self improvement standards
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
self anxiety doe
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
self social-behavior speak
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
self achievement notable
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements
self boost efficacy
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy
self information evaluation
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience
self perspective acting
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object
self dysfunction problem
Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency
self people efficacy
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
self way efficacy
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
self demand may
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
self discrepancies-between tasks
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous
self information maintaining
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process
self people influence
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances
self people may
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience
self people levels
For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence
self people degrees
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
self expectations outcomes
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
self psychological domain
Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
self information efficacy
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
self people effort
Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can
self different patterns
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects