Inviting Confidence in School: Invitations as a Critical Source of the Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Entering Middle School Students.

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From social class to self-efficacy: internalization of low social status pupils’ school performance (2015, background): “As academic performances in turn affect self-efficacy (Usher and Pajares 2006), this might result in a sort of vicious circle for low SES students, making it hard for them to regain the necessary positive sense of self-efficacy to engage in school work.”
Sources of Self-Efficacy in School: Critical Review of the Literature and Future Directions (2008, methodology): “Hence, findings obtained with measures in which only peer or adult modeling experiences are assessed (e.g., Hampton, 1998; Matsui et al., 1990; Usher & Pajares, 2006b) may provide incomplete insights about the nature of this source, and findings obtained with measures that combine vicarious…”