A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Within-Person Self-Efficacy Domain: Is Self-Efficacy a Product of Past Performance or a Driver of Future Performance?

Personnel Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 531-568

  Sitzmann, Traci ^a   Yeo, Gillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 84880698642     PISSN: 00315826     EISSN: 17446570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/peps.12035     Document Type: Article

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