Self-Efficacy Scale for Tennis
Sample items
- “I can play most of my shots correctly.”
- “Improving my strokes will win me more points.”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Julian Barling and Mike Abel
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.
“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 58%
“The Psychology of Performance: How to Be Your Best in Life 85 objective and experiential feeling of doing it right. So, we want to maximize these mastery experiences in all settings to increase confidence. We do that by creating task-involving climates where the focus is on…”
— Great Course Psychology of Performancematch 55%
“84 Your self-efficacy beliefs influence how you interpret the world around you and what happens to you. When you are confident, you tend to interpret tasks as challenging rather than threatening, are more optimistic and less likely to expect a negative outcome, and will have…”
— Great Course Psychology of Performancematch 52%
Resources: Great Course Psychology of Performance