ABSTRACT
Self-efficacy beliefs do not correspond to omnibus self-appraisals, but rather to highly contextualized knowledge structures regarding one’s own abilities to face specific challenges. In reality the degree of perceived mastery or control one may exert varies across domain and situation, as well as within domains and situations. People’s self-beliefs as sons or daughters may differ from their beliefs as students or workers, as from their beliefs as parents or partner, as well as across time and over the various contingencies of life.
