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Review

Self-Efficacy in a Nursing Context

Shefaly Shorey  1 , Violeta Lopez  2
Gørill Haugan  1 , Monica Eriksson  2
, editors.
In: Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021. Chapter 12.
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Self-Efficacy in a Nursing Context

Shefaly Shorey et al.
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Excerpt

Self-efficacy is one of the most ubiquitous term found in social, psychological, counselling, education, clinical and health literatures. The purpose of this chapter is to describe and evaluate self-efficacy theory and the studies most relevant to the nursing context. This chapter provides an overview of the development of self-efficacy theory, its five components and the role of self-efficacy in promoting emotional and behavioural changes in a person’s life with health problems. This chapter also discusses the role of self-efficacy in nursing interventions by providing examples of studies conducted in health promotion in patients and academic performance of nursing students.

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