ABSTRACT
Psychologist Albert Bandura pioneered the concept of self-efficacy, defining it as "people's beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their own actions". Bandura is aware of the influence of perceived coping efficacy on the basic biological systems that mediate health functioning. In a positive sociology, authenticity comes to the confident self by way of personal development, specifically as achieved through positive interpersonal relationships and positive personal and social identity. Authenticity begets confidence through the mechanism of realistic assessment of self and relevant achievements. High quality of occupational life, however generated, is a state of mind, which to the extent people are concerned with their own well-being at work, must as with serious leisure, be pursued with notable diligence. Well-being includes having decent health, both mental and physical. Nevertheless these two states are so vital to life, in general, and self-confidence, in particular, that they beg to be treated of separately.
