Standford professor of psychology Albert Bandura developed the theory of self-efficacy to address how an individual perceives his ability to perform a task within a specific context. Self-efficacy is ...

Self-efficacy has been associated with health outcomes for women with disabilities. Self-efficacy involves our confidence in our ability to achieve desired goals. In other words, we tend to choose to ...

There’s a reason the words “believe in yourself” are plastered on classroom signs and cross-stitched on throw pillows. Your sense of self-efficacy, or the belief that you can accomplish what you set ...

Belief makes champions out of an ordinary group of individuals—like the little train that could! While that story is fictional, its message couldn't be more real. Every once in a while, an underdog ...

How do you feel when you face a challenging situation? Do you feel self-confident and believe you have whatever it takes to succeed, or do you doubt your ability to tackle the task ahead of you? The ...

“We’ve become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy.” –Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune, Christmas, 1986 On returning home to Edinburgh, ...

When it comes to making a health change, it might feel like there is an extremely tall mountain between where you are now and ...