Self-Efficacy Beliefs

Once you have created goals for yourself, it's important to analyze how your goals relate to your studying and learning in college. Some of the different beliefs that you hold about learning and yourself as a learner will influence the goals you set and the motivation that you have for college.

For example, you should now be able to describe situations in which:

• you feel confident about succeeding, or

• you feel less confident about succeeding

Click to open Activity #15 and follow the directions.

In which situations are you more motivated?

. . . when you are more confident in the situations

Or,

. . . when you are less confident in the situations

Probably your motivation is higher when you feel more confident about succeeding. When you feel confident, you set more challenging goals, and you don't have to worry about keeping your motivation high as much as you do when you do not feel very confident.