… This book explores the exercise of human agency through people's beliefs in their capabilities
to produce desired effects by their actions. It reviews in considerable detail the origins of …

… influence (R 2 = .116) and self-efficacy cognitions (R 2 = .093) … self-efficacy was a significant
predictor of overall exercise … difference between self-efficacy and regularity of exercise (r …

Background: The measure for self-efficacy barriers to exercise was developed for adults and
revised on the basis of quantitative and qualitative research with older adults so it would be …

… physical and self-regulatory skills. While self-regulatory efficacy is clearly linked to exercise
… literature on the relationship between self-efficacy and exercise among CR participants has …

… Observed changes in the three self-efficacy domains appeared to be relatively independent…
exercise self-efficacy that can be assessed and appears to be sensitive to change in exercise …

… perceptions of self-efficacy, proxy efficacy, and exercise class … measures of self-efficacy
and proxy efficacy and their class … Self-efficacy was assessed through measures of exercise, …

… at the end of the program, and exercise self-efficacy was significantly related to … of exercise
participation. Moreover, a proposed interaction between exercise importance and selfefficacy …

Much pretentious nonsense has been written in the social sciences about theory building,
but not many social scientists have actually built valid theories. I consider Albert Bandura's …

… Although selfefficacy has typically been identified as an important predictor of exercise and
… effects of both long-term exercise participation and acute bouts of exercise on the physical …

… self-efficacy to exercise. We developed two scales to measure stages of changefor exercise
behavior. … Next, the ability of a questionnaire measuringexercise self-efficacy to differentiate …