COGNITIVE SELF-EFFICACY IN RELATION TO PERSONAL MASTERY AND GOAL-SETTING ACROSS THE LIFE-SPAN
COGNITIVE SELF-EFFICACY IN RELATION TO PERSONAL MASTERY AND GOAL-SETTING ACROSS THE LIFE-SPAN
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DOI:
10.1177/016502549301600213
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发表时间:
1993-06-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
WEST, RL
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作者:
BERRY, JM;WEST, RL
This article is an integrative review of empirical studies of cognitive self-efficacy from childhood through old age. Issues of definition and measurement are addressed and the relation of self-efficacy to personal mastery is evaluated. Research on academic achievement in children and adolescents, complex decision-making in young adults, and memory and intellectual functioning in older adults supports a variety of theoretically driven hypotheses regarding the sources and effects of self-efficacy. Percepts of self-efficacy are based on a variety of sources of information, including personal mastery and perceived control beliefs. Self-efficacy has predictable effects on a variety of task engagement variables (e.g. persistence, effort, goal setting, strategy usage, chioce) that mediate the relationship between self-efficacy and performance. Generalisations regarding the applicability of self-efficacy to understanding cognitive development across the life span are discussed in terms of age-relevant domains and it is argued that a life span treatment of self-efficacy development is particularly compelling because both life span theory and self-efficacy theory emphasise domain specificity.