Federation University Australia
Question
Asked 20th Sep, 2016

Deleted profile
Quite confuse about social cognitive theory (SCT) variables?
when I try to find SCT variable. it's come out with the three reciprocal determinism (behavioral, personal and environment). when reading articles its discuss about self efficacy and outcome expectancies. self efficacy and outcome expectancies are related to which reciprocal determinism? is it behavioral or personal? I don't think it's environmental..
other theories i saw straight to the point and even provide IV and DV. so researchers could know and justify their study.
what is your opinion?
All Answers (3)
Abdul - what you are referring to seems to relate more to internal versus external locus of control. Environmental issues are more likely to relate to external loci - and often outside of the individual's control. The attached article might assist.
1 Recommendation
Federation University Australia
Hi Abdul,
The baseline interpretation, to me, is that self-efficacy relates to an individual's perception of their ability to achieve behavioural change - whereas outcome expectancy relates to their perception of what they actually will change.
Best,
Dean
1 Recommendation
Northcentral University, Arizona, United States
There could be a simple out-of-box perspective to help for digesting, by looking at the inter-relations of the the three reciprocal determination, first; a personal behavior, environmental behavior, and personal environment; then after, going back to influence of each variable could be more practical to analyze.
Similar questions and discussions
Value dominants of the concept "friendship' in social communities
Irina Mikhailovna Pechonkina
My student and I research the problem to prove that the concept 'friendship' (and 'friend') is a universal value, but at the same time this concept has its own peculiarity in every nation.It's very interesting to analyze the value dominants of this phenomenon in every culture(the definition by Roget) from the point of view of etymology and its usage in the proverbs, maxims etc. Has a concept 'friendship' undergone changes throughout the ages?Thus, there are a lot of changes in Russian and English- from a real, honest, generous friend, almost brother to a person of commerce, entertainment, profit. For instance," we can't buy our friends advantageously, but we can sell them advantageously" or "If you have nothing to offer, offer at least a friendship"etc.