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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology
Self-Efficacy
Refers to the beliefs people have about their abilities to "organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances" (Bandura, 1986, p. 391). Self-efficacy is a central construct in social cognitive career theory (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1996), in which it assumed not to be a single or fixed trait, but rather a dynamic set of beliefs about performance across many domains.
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