Toward a Psychology of Human Agency

By Kate Volpe. 2004

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Perceived public support and entrepreneurship attitudes: A little reciprocity can go a long way! (2020, background): “According to Bandura (2006) people are neither fully autonomous agents nor fully determined by their environment.”
An agentic perspective on positive psychology. (2008, background): “An Agentic Perspective on Positive Psychology Albert Bandura The present chapter addresses the field of positive psychology from the agentic perspective of social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986; 2006a).”
Attitudes, efficacy beliefs, and willingness to pay for environmental protection when travelling (2015, background): “Bandura (2006) stated that ‘‘[u]nless people believe that they can produce desired effects by their actions, they have little incentive to act, or to persevere in the face of difficulties’’ (p. 170).”
Self-Efficacy: A Foundational Concept for Positive Clinical Psychology (2016, background): “Most studies agree that the task-specific measures Self-Efficacy 4 of self-efficacy are better predictors of behavior than the general measures of self-efficacy (Bandura, 2006).”
Agency as a fourth aspect of students engagement during learning activities (2011, background): “Such a linear model (teacher presents a learning activity ? students to some degree engage themselves ? students to some degree learn and profit from the experience) overlooks students’ agentic involvement in the learning process (Bandura, 2006).”
The influence of future time perspective on work engagement and job performance: the role of job crafting (2017, unknown): “Social cognitive theory (Bandura, 2006) proposes that envisioning the future (i.e., an open-ended FTP) is one of the core properties of human agency.”
Belief in Free Will: Measurement and Conceptualization Innovations (2008, background): “…words, a generalized libertarian belief in free will is the “default” philosophy of most persons; when environmental stimuli direct attention to compelling external determinants, people rationally adopt a compatibilist position, much like Bandura has advocated over the years (Bandura, 1989, 2006).”
The dynamics of proactivity at work (2008, background): “Employees are thinking, deliberating, planning, calculating, and acting in advance with foresight about future events before they occur (e.g., Bandura, 2006; Gollwitzer, 1999; Karniol & Ross, 1996; Klein, 1989; Little, Salmela-Aro, & Phillips, 2006; Murray, 1938).”
Teacher agency: the effects of active and passive responses to curriculum change (2019, background): “Collegiality improves efficacy, and implicit within the act of agency is self-efficacy, where teachers make judgments about their own capabilities to be effective in making change (Bandura 1997). Efficacy influences aspirations, goal setting, outcomes expectations, effort, how failure and setbacks a”