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138. The science of self-belief, part II: self-efficacy

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Self-Efficiency Is More Malleable Than Self-Esteem or Self-Concept

Self-efficacy is more malleable than either self-esteem or self-concept and it relies less on your personal history they say. It's not the kind of thing in terms of raw people up or get people to feel very strong feelings if you ask like do you think you can solve an equation that's square roots in it. So we're gonna hear a bit about some interventions shortly. Next I'm going to give a quote which talks about the effects and a little bit also about the development of self-efficacy. Students with strong self-efficiency beliefs are likely to enjoy higher academic achievement because they are more willing to approach challenging tasks exert more effort towards and persist longer at

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