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Self-Efficacy
Self-efficacy refers to an individual’s belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments (Bandura, 1977, 1986, 1997)1Bandura, Albert, and Richard E. Watts. “Self-efficacy in changing societies.” (1996): 313-315.. Self-efficacy reflects confidence in the ability to exert control over one’s own motivation, behavior, and social environment. Self-efficacy is therefore a sub-function of our subconscious mind. This is a belief system, that drives the way we are tuned to solve a problem.
Problem Solving Mechanism
- Our subconscious mind trains the muscles(for example hand’s limbic muscles for shoe lace tying)
- Neurons trigger in different patterns(not yet fully understood), to associate distant information(for example our brain can generate cues from a music show about how to write certain codes).
- Conscious mind executes the plans using skills, knowledge, resources, past experience etc.
- Brain use focus to execute a work.
- Ego-function protects the belief that the new work can be done, and that the problem can be solved.
- You add new learnings and skills as you go on solving the problem, facing new challenges.
- Social skills(neo cortex and pre-frontal-cortex part of the brain) helps us to collaborate and coordinate with other people to carry out the work.
- Practice gives us the confidence.
- Past success gives us the competence.
Therefore self-efficacy is the combination of your knowledge, skill, confidence, competence, people’s skill, self-belief, and not really how much problems you have solved, or what kind of difficult problems you may solve.
How to Interpret this Test
Self-efficacy is your internal belief system. It is one of the major pillars of self-esteem, and self-love. You you think that you have what it takes to become successful, then you take up bigger challenges. You are under less stress. Your fear for failure is low. This is a self-assessment test and doesn’t have any clinical relevance. That is because if this is used to evaluate others, most may lie about the answers. If you have low self-efficacy, then you may have several issues with self-esteem, the feeling that “I am not good enough”. This may make you more anxious and you may feel more helpless in a situation. Yourself attracting narcissists and individuals with dark triad will be higher. In the workplace, you may suffer a great deal, because people may use you easily. Low self-efficacy will also hold you back from achieving whatever you want to achieve in life. Low self-efficacy will lead you to complain about yourself more, which will eventually over a period of time result in several other psychopathological problem. One of the most important problems that you may face with low self-efficacy is “worry”. Worry has being long proven to be directly correlated with altering your metabolism, in a way to contribute towards non-alcoholic fatty liver. Low self-efficacy may cause sub-clinical progressive depression in you. Therefore, you must take this test with honesty to know what is your core belief about your ability to solve life’s problems. This is a predictive test that may point out future depression and other similar mental illnesses. Though this test will not have any clinical relevance, you should you this prior to taking up any major projects, just to be sure of success.
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References
- 1Bandura, Albert, and Richard E. Watts. “Self-efficacy in changing societies.” (1996): 313-315.
