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Self-Efficacy: Definition and Examples

January 31, 2018 Kendra Cherry 1

According to psychologist Albert Bandura, self-efficacy is our belief in our ability to succeed in certain situations. The concept plays a major role in Bandura’s social learning theory, which focuses on how personality is shaped […]

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