Nursing 1103W Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Medical Diagnosis, Social Learning Theory, Individual Psychological Assessment
4 Mar 2016
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*self efficacy is a strong predictor of the initiation and. Lecture 16: the process of client education. A person"s belief about his / her capability of performing a behaviour. Behaviour is contingent upon efficacy expectations and outcome expectations. An efficacy expectation belief of personal capability. An outcome expectation belief that beh will lead to a certain outcome maintenance of behavioural change. Self efficacy can : modify achievement of new behaviours e. g. , safe sex. Stop existing behaviours e. g. , smoking; nail biting. Promote behaviours e. g. , physical activity after surgery; Self efficacy is based on perception: not necessarily one"s true capability. Self efficacy varies according to 3 dimensions: Can be represented by using a scale of related tasks ranked according to level of difficulty. E. g. , selecting simple tasks rather thandifficult tasks. Belief that a beh will be performed successfully. May be the most important predictor of beh. E. g. , confidence in one"s ability. Belief of ability to perform can generalize to other.
