There were many variables analyzed and discussed in this study, but it illustrates well how important self-efficacy is in parenting. High self-efficacy individuals persist longer in the face of difficulty and are extremely resilient in the face of failure Bandura, ; as cited in Redmond, Strengthening self-efficacy augments goal attainment motivation Bandura, ; as cited in Redmond, High self-efficacy individuals habitually work harder and persevere while low self-efficacy individuals frequently quit Bandura, ; as cited in Redmond, The first was ambiguity and lack of definition in self-efficacy.
Bandura had sought to make a distinction between self-efficacy and outcomes but others found some of his statements to be misleading in this regard. The scale provided to Eastman and Marzillier by Bandura is shown below:.
This scale was criticized for two main reasons. The first is that the scale is not clear and a 10 can be interpreted at varied levels.
While there is no zero on the scale, the scale also does not allow for numbers between the numbers listed on the scale which can account for a large difference on a point probability scale. While critics of Bandura and self-efficacy agree that there is value in his experiments, it is doubted that self-efficacy and outcomes can be limited and distinct on a larger scale or in application of the theory. The findings of these studies were reported in the Journal of Applied Psychology in What they found was that when a person had a high level of self-efficacy, this did not mean they had a high level of performance.
In fact, it could lead to a low level of performance. The studies were done on western college students using the Mastermind game which is a game that participants must put four colored squares in the correct order and they have ten attempts to do so. With each attempt, the participant would get feedback to use for their next attempt.
In the experimental group, during a few of the games, the participant would automatically get their third attempt correct in order to increase self-efficacy. The control group did not get any manipulations at all. One question for self-efficacy involved having the participant state how many attempts it would take them to find a solution based on a scale of 1, extremely unlikely to 6, extremely likely.
The question for self-confidence involved having the participant state how confident they were in the arrangement choice they were making based on the feedback that they had received based on a scale of 0, not confident, to , very confident. What the experiment found was that in the experimental groups, the manipulated games did increase the self-efficacy of the person and on some levels it also decreased the performance of the person on the next game.
Vancouver in found that by looking at the change with-in an individual, there was a negative affect between high self-efficacy and performance as a whole but he also felt that there needs to be more research on this for there could also be other reasons that the study did not show for these changes.
In the second study they did similar testing but this time they were looking at what the level of confidence had on the performance and the self-efficacy of the individuals. What they found surprised them. They found that there was a positive effect of self-efficacy and confidence, the higher the level of self-efficacy the higher the level of confidence and vice-versa. What they also found was that there was no effect on confidence and performance and this also did not explain the lower performance of participants with the higher levels of self-efficacy.
Powers in and also found a negative between self-efficacy and performance but these studies did not take a look at the confidence of the individuals. He feels that having high levels of self-efficacy may cause a person to set higher goals, but it can also reduce the motivation to reach the goals Vancouver et el, Stone in also found that a person that was over-confident in their abilities were high is self-efficacy and that these individuals also had less motivation and contributed less to reaching these goals.
After looking at these studies, one may conclude that high levels of self-efficacy may not be as good as Bandura once thought. Before making this conclusion, one must realize that this is what seems to happen over time and not in a short length of time.
It must also be considered that people in this group are also more likely to set higher goals and to push on when the going gets tough. These individuals are less likely to stop or quit a task where as a person with low self-efficacy is more likely to set lower goals and to quit or give up when things get tough. It must also be considered that there may be other factors that have not been researched that are leading to the lower performance levels with high levels of self-efficacy and high self- confidence.
These are just a few of the points that need to be considered when trying to use high levels of self-efficacy to get more and better production out of workers. While these concepts can inter-relate, it is not necessarily true that a positive relationship will always exist between these two very similar constructs.
An individual may have a high opinion of him or herself in general and be satisfied with the person that he or she is, but still know on a given task that he or she may not be well equipped to handle it, just as easily as one can be confident on a given task but not be very satisfied with him or herself in general.
In our case study, where the company in question was having trouble retaining new hires, they began to give potential employees a test that very strongly mimicked what they would be doing on a daily basis. New hires who passed the test were then informed that they had already proven they could do the job because the test was essentially the same as the work they were being hired to do.
This started them out with a good dose of self-efficacy. As indicated by the table above, the process also may have increased their self-esteem as well. Also, knowing they were able to do the job could contribute to goal commitment out of pride and maintaining the standard they set for themselves, as well as positivity; however the process was primarily designed as a way to give the new hires a sense of high self-efficacy.
Sanna investigates how self-efficacy theory provides an integrative framework for social facilitation and social loafing phenomena.
The researcher conducted two experiments. In the first experiment, the researcher manipulated efficacy expectancies and outcome expectancies. Efficacy expectancies high vs low were manipulated by providing false performance feedback successfully vs unsuccessfully to the participants who worked on the preliminary task the vigilance test.
Outcome expectancies were manipulated by having participants work in one of three group conditions: alone, in coaching pairs when performance was evaluated individually , and in collective pairs performance was not evaluated individually.
The results of the first experiment demonstrate that efficacy expectancy and outcome expectancy jointly affected performance on a vigilance task. Particularly, participants with high efficacy expectancy positive feedback and high outcome expectancy when they were evaluated individually performed better than participants with low efficacy expectancy negative feedback and low outcome expectancy they were not evaluated individually.
In the second experiment, the researcher manipulated the difficulty of the task. The hypothesis is that an easy task predicts high-efficacy expectancies, whereas a difficult task predicts developing low-efficacy expectancies. The results proved the hypothesis. The researcher argues that the participants may loaf because they believe that they are not evaluated individually by others. This research supports the idea that self-efficacy expectancy and valence of evaluation affect performance.
View the video below for a further discussion of this phenomena. Human functioning may be primarily influenced by personal self-efficacy , behavioral social recognition , and environmental sense of cohesion in work area influences.
What this may imply is that the core of our motivation may be extrinsically reinforced. The amount of research support for self-efficacy motivation is rather high, which shows that the theory is not only valid but reliable. Finally, self-efficacy theory is only one factor that can contribute to motivation; looking into the details of other theories or perhaps a combination of other theories may be the only way to gain a clearer idea on what ultimately motivates us.
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