ABSTRACT
When children are successful at completing a task and when they attribute their successes to their abilities, they develop a sense of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997). That is, a belief that they will be effective at similar tasks in the future. High levels of self-efficacy are associated with more effective task completion, but children with low self-efficacy tend not to persist in trying to solve their problems and so low self-efficacy may maintain psychological difficulties.
