In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.