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• Show little or no commitment to their goals. Others do not have

even goals! They undertake what comes before them in the hope
that it will succeed.

• They give up quickly when faced bay challenging tasks

• They recover their low self efficacy slowly if whatever they were
undertaking fails to succeed.

Low self efficacy will lead to

 Successive failures of whatever one engages in

 Belief that one is failure

 Loss of hope in life
 Stress and depression

 Inferiority complex feeling

The Sources of Self-Efficacy

The belief by an individual can be developed through four major

sources of influence. The best way of creating high sense of efficacy is
through experience.

i. Mastery Experience

If you engage in challenging tasks and you succeed, this will give you
self efficacy and self confidence that you can meet and overcome most

of the challenging tasks. Failures will do the other way round; if you
successive fail. You will most likely harbor the belief that you cannot

succeed.

Failure at instances or circumstances in which you had put much

emphasis on succeeding only will hurt you most. In all cases, you

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