Exercise of personal agency through the self-efficacy mechanism

Self-Efficacy: Thought Control Of Action

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3-38

  Bandura, Albert ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315800820     Document Type: Chapter

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