Self-Efficacy Scale
Sample items
- “I believe I can do 2 tasks in 1 minute”
- “I believe I can do 4 tasks in 1 minute”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Albert Bandura
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Wellformulated selfefficacy scales focus on a psychological domain selected for study, and ideally measure people's beliefs in their capabilities to fulfill different levels of task demands within that domain. By measuring perceptions of selfefficacy across a wide range of task…”
— Social Cognitive Theorymatch 60%
“Bogus physiological feedback that patients were effective relaxers raised beliefs in their efficacy to cope with their oral surgery (Litt, Nye, & Shafer, 1993). Selfefficacy enhancement surpassed relaxation and sedation drugs in reducing selfrated anxiety as well as anxiety…”
— Social Cognitive Theorymatch 60%
“82 Confidence We all know confidence when we see it, but it can be more difficult to define. In fact, the literature in sport psychology will often interchangeably use the terms self-confidence and self-efficacy. Self-efficacy as a theory was first coined in 1977 by Albert…”
— Great Course Psychology of Performancematch 59%
Resources: Social Cognitive Theory · Great Course Psychology of Performance