ISBN:
9780521474672
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (354 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies
DDC:
303.372
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of contributors; 1 Exercise of personal and collective efficacy in changing societies; Nature and function of efficacy beliefs; Self-efficacy in the exercise of human agency; Sources of efficacy beliefs; Efficacy-activated processes; Cognitive processes; Motivational processes; Affective processes; Selection processes; Adaptive benefits of optimistic efficacy beliefs; Self-efficacy in the changing structure of family systems; Self-efficacy in intellectual development; Students' cognitive and self-regulatory efficacy
Description / Table of Contents:
Impact of cognitive self-efficacy on developmental trajectoriesCollective school efficacy; Impact of societal changes on school efficacy; Career development and pursuits; Efficacy determination of the slate of options; Occupational self-efficacy and demographic changes; Health-promotive role of self-efficacy; Biological effects of self-efficacy in coping with stressors; Self-efficacy in health-protnotive behavior; Exercise of self-directed change; Collective efficacy in policy and public health approaches; Self-efficacy in individualistic and collectivistic social systems; Collective efficacy
Description / Table of Contents:
Underminers of collective efficacyBidirectionality of human influence; References; 2 Life trajectories in changing societies; The life course as an emerging paradigm; Changing times and human agency; Linked lives and their timing; Rising above life's disadvantage: the role of personal agency; Blunting the impact of depression adversity; Helpfulness and agency in depression households; Some parallels in contemporary America; The inner city and efficacious parents; Linking economic pressures and parental efficac; What do efficacious parents do?; Rural youth in a transformed world
Description / Table of Contents:
The trauma of farm lossSelf-efficacy and the decision to migrate; Conclusion; References; 3 Developmental analysis of control beliefs; The ontogenetic development of the control belief structure; The logic of the structural composition of control beliefs; Developmental conditions and strength of control beliefs: Control beliefs and developmental outcomes; Strength of control and strength of control beliefs over the lifespan; Overestimation of control beliefs and the developmental value of high control beliefs; Developmental conditions for variations in control beliefs
Description / Table of Contents:
The microgenesis of control beliefs (Aktualgenese)Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Impact of family processes on control beliefs; Self-efficacy and other control-related constructs; Assessment self-efficacy within the family context; Family structure and control beliefs; Sibling position; Family completeness; Family size; Parental influences on children's control beliefs; Parental correlates of children's control beliefs; Longitudinal evidence on parenting antecedents of children's control beliefs; Intergenerational transmission of control beliefs: The modelinghypothesis
Description / Table of Contents:
Antecedents of parenting efficacy
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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