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Quote by Albert Bandura
Among the mechanisms of personal agency, none is more central or pervasive than people's beliefs about their capabilities to exercise control over events that affect their lives.
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People’s sense of personal agency depends greatly on what they believe they are capable of doing. These beliefs shape how much control they feel they can exercise over events affecting their lives. In other words, confidence in one’s ability to act is presented as a central part of directing one’s own experience.
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- American Psychologist, “Human Agency in Social Cognitive Theory” (1989)
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