Abstract: Perceived self-efficacy is concerned with people’s beliefs in their capabilities to succeed in specific situations and can play a major role in how one approaches goals, tasks, and challenges. There is no all-purpose measure of perceived self-efficacy but it is necessary to derive specific scales for specific contexts. This paper presents the structure of a self-efficacy scale developed for social workers. Using the Rating Scale Model as measurement model, an objective measurement of the social workers perceived self-efficacy is produced and ...
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Topics: 
Social psychology
Applied psychology