Self-Efficacy

The goal of this book is to illustrate the change in emphasis during the 1980s from one dominated by a behaviouristic perspective to one much more congnitive in its emphasis. It is aimed at research psychologists and graduate-level psychology students. I: Self-Efficacy and Human Functioning; Exercise of Personal Agency Through the Self-Efficacy Mechanism; Two Dimensions of Perceived Self-Efficacy: Cognitive Control and Behavioral Coping Ability; Expectancies as Mediators Between Recipient Characteristics and Social Support Intentions; II: Self-Efficacy and Human Development; Perceived Control: Motivation, Coping, and Development; Adults' Expectancies About Development and its Controllability: Enhancing Self-Efficacy by Social Comparison; Personal Control Over Development: Some Developmental Implications of Self-Efficacy; III: Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Emotion; Perceived Self-Efficacy and Phobic Disability; Self-Efficacy and Depression; Self-Efficacy as a Resource Factor in Stress Appraisal Processes; IV: Self-Efficacy and Health Behaviors; Self-Efficacy in the Adoption and Maintenance of Health Behaviors: Theoretical Approaches and a New Model; Self-Efficacy and Attribution Theory in Health Education; The Influence of Expectancies and Problem-Solving Strategies on Smoking Intentions; V: Self-Efficacy, Physical Symptoms, and Rehabilitation of Chronic Disease; Role of Physical Self-Efficacy in Recovery from Heart Attack; Perceived Self-Efficacy in Self-Management of Chronic Disease; Self-Efficacy Expectancies in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Rehabilitation; Self-Efficacy Mechanism in Psychobiologic Functioning