Question

Dan avoids applying to college because he doubts he can succeed. he is working a retail job, but he tends to focus on the things he does wrong. in fact, he has almost no confidence in his abilities, and when he experiences a setback at work he is ready to quit. albert bandura would say dan has ________.

Answer 1

Dan has low self-efficacy. Bandura would hold that Dan feels that every failure is a dent in the armor of how he feels about himself and his abilities. As noted, Dan is always looking at the negatives and the failures in what he does, instead of the positive aspects and the successes he's experienced.