Self efficacy

Question 1

What is Self-efficacy

Answer 1

person evaluates ability to perform a certain task.

beliefs about their “capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives.

Self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves

Question 2

Why is Self-Efficacy Important?

Answer 2

Moderately positive relationship to job-related outcomes, such as job satisfaction and quality of work.

Question 3

Bandura’s social cognitive theory (cited by McCormick, 2001) portrays human functioning as?

Answer 3

Dynamic interaction of
a person’s cognitions;
his or her behavior;
and the environment.

Question 4

Self efficacy influences performance and leadership effivtivness through what two mechanisms ?

Answer 4

1. individual motivation (i.e., direction, effort, and persistence)
2. task-strategy development.

Question 5

What are four sources of self efficacy

Answer 5

(1) personal mastery experiences;
(2) vicarious mastery experiences;
(3) verbal persuasion; and
(4) physiological and affective states

Question 6

What were the findings for Fitzgerald and Schutte (2010), intervention study?

Answer 6

Increasing self efficacy resulted in higher transformational leadership scores.

Those with higher EQ benifted more from the intervention.