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Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance
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In this article, the authors present a social cognitive framework for understanding three intricately linked aspects of career development: (a) the formation and elaboration of career-relevant interests, (b) selection of academic and career choice options, and (c) performance and persistence in educational and occupational pursuits.About:
This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 1994-08-01. It has received 5709 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive Information Processing & Career development.read more
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Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective
TL;DR: Social cognitive theory distinguishes among three modes of agency: direct personal agency, proxy agency that relies on others to act on one's behest to secure desired outcomes, and collective agency exercised through socially coordinative and interdependent effort.
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Competing models of entrepreneurial intentions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare two intention-based models in terms of their ability to predict entrepreneurial intentions: Ajzen's theory of planned behavior (TPB) and Shapero's model of the entrepreneurial event (SEE).
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Self-efficacy and work-related performance: A meta-analysis.
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between self-efficacy and work-related performance and found a significant weighted average correlation between selfefficacy, G (r+) =.38, and a signif
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Obesity and Overweight
TL;DR: Overweight or obesity in adolescents has reache epidemic proportions in the USA and other industr alized countries and these conditions, although lumped together in research and in commentarie reflect adolescents’ being toward the heavier point a continuum that would range from underweight morbidly obese.
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Negative self-efficacy and goal effects revisited.
Albert Bandura,Edwin A. Locke +1 more
TL;DR: Converging evidence from diverse methodological and analytic strategies verifies that perceived self-efficacy and personal goals enhance motivation and performance attainments.