Social cognitive theory (SCT; Bandura 1986) has become a fundamental resource in
clinical, educational, social, developmental, health, and personality psychology. It has been …

Self-referent thought has become an issue that pervades psychological research in many
domains. In 1977, the famous psychologist Albert Bandura at Stanford University introduced …

Social cognitive theory is a theory of human behavior that emphasizes learning from the
social environment. This chapter focuses on Bandura's social cognitive theory, which …

Soaring population growth tops the list of global problems. Increasing population growth
fuels civil strife. Around 80 per cent of the violent conflicts are in countries with large youth …

When I entered the field of psychology, behaviorism was the reigning theory. It located the
causes and regulators of human behavior in the workings of environmental forces …

A comprehensive perspective on human nature by one of the undisputed masters of the
psychological sciences The final book by psychology's most eminent modern figure, Dr …

Many psychological theories have been proposed over the years to explain human
behavior. The view of human nature embodied in such theories and the causal processes …

The Health Belief Model, social learning theory (recently relabelled social cognitive theory),
self-efficacy, and locus of control have all been applied with varying success to problems of …

Although there are different social cognitive perspectives, this chapter focuses on Bandura's
(1977b, 1986, 1997, 2001) social cognitive theory of psychological functioning. Bandura's …

▪ Abstract The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the
essence of humanness. Human agency is characterized by a number of core features that …