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- Title
Efficacy-Performance Spirals: An Empirical Test.
- Authors
Shea, Christine M.; Howell, Jane M.
- Abstract
This study examined the pattern of the relationships between self-efficacy and performance in an experiment involving 148 students who worked on a manufacturing task over four trials. Task feedback and task experience, two variables that may influence the occurrence of efficacy-performance spirals, were also investigated. Results indicated strong support for a significant relationship between self-efficacy and performance over time. However, the pattern of changes in self-efficacy and performance from trial-to-trial contained self-corrections, suggesting that the efficacy-performance relationship does not necessarily proceed in a monotonic, deviation-amplifying spiral. Task feedback and task experience affected the occurrence of self-corrections in the pattern of changes in self-efficacy and performance over time. Implications are drawn about the dynamic nature of self-efficacy. (c) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
- Subjects
SELF-efficacy; STUDENTS; PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING &; Consulting Services Inc.
- Publication
Journal of Management, 2000, Vol 26, Issue 4, p791
- ISSN
0149-2063
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/014920630002600409