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CULTIVATE SELF - EFFICACY FOR PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS 195
CONCLUSION
The guiding principles and applications reviewed in the preceding sections underscore
the centrality of perceived self - efficacy as a personal resource that yields
dividends in motivation, performance attainments, and emotional well - being. Social
cognitive theory embeds perceived efficacy within a broad network of sociocognitive
factors. There are several features of sociocognitive theory that lend themselves
readily to widespread social applications. Its key sociocognitive factors are amenable
to change, the theory specifies how to alter them, clarifies the mechanisms through
which they work, and provides explicit guidelines on how to translate theory into
effective practice for personal and social change.
A substantial body of evidence verifies that perceived self - efficacy operates as a
common mechanism through which changes are achieved by diverse modes of infl uence,
across markedly diverse spheres of functioning, with heterogeneous populations, and
under differing life conditions. This widespread generalizability is in keeping with
Occam ’s maxim advocating theoretical parsimony.
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