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Enactive mastery experiences are personal experiences of managing efforts toward performance accomplishments.
Introduction
Albert Bandura, who first developed the theory of self-efficacy and social learning theory, already hypothesized in the 1970s (e.g., Bandura and Adams 1977) that self-efficacy stems from four main sources of information, of which performance accomplishments are the strongest. The reason for this is that self-efficacy is developed from enactive mastery experiences. The three other sources of self-efficacy are vicarious mastery experiences (by means of observing others who are successfully managing efforts), verbal persuasion (by means of receiving feedback on one’s abilities to cope successfully), and physiological arousal(from which one can judge one’s level of anxiety and vulnerability to stress as well as...
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Lippke, S. (2020). Enactive Mastery Experience. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1130
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