Self-efficacy and resource allocation: Support for a nonmonotonic, discontinuous model

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Vancouver, Jeffrey B.; More, Kristen M.; Yoder, Ryan J.
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.1.35
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 35-47
• 关键词: self-regulation; self-efficacy; expectancy; motivation; goals

摘要

Self-regulation theories are paving the way to integrating motivational theories of behavior. However, a review of the motivation literature reveals several possible relationships between self-efficacy and motivation. Past findings were reduced to 4 empirical models, which were compared within a single study using undergraduates playing a computer task. The effects of 2 manipulations of self-efficacy on resource allocation decisions were assessed. Consistent with a multiple goal process conceptualization, self-efficacy was found to relate positively to directing resources toward a goal but negatively to the magnitude of resources allocated for accepted goals. Differences in methods are used to reconcile current and past findings.