Completing my work and improving my grades would pay off in the long term as well. When I began applying for college I felt proud to see A’s and B’s on my transcript. Doing my homework became positively reinforcing because my grades improved and my chances of getting in to the college I wanted went up. A long term goal that I also had was to get a job I really wanted at a place that I wanted. I knew that if I didn’t change my actions that I would be punished by being denied a teaching position. I hated the thought of looking back and blaming myself for not changing when I could, so it had to change. A research study on self-efficacy beliefs showed that “Self-efficacy as one of a variety of sociocognitive influences on the career aspirations
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In an article on self-efficacy, Zimmerman shares how a person has the ability to perform behaviors in ways that pleases them (Zimmerman, 2000). Seeing that the behaviors that I was portraying weren’t pleasing to me I knew that I had the ability to change them. Only I had the control over my own behavior and the environment that I put myself in. I stopped hanging out with my sister and her friends and started dating a guy who was really good for me. We too attended the same football games that I use to with my sister but something was different about it, in a good way. I found myself having just as much fun, if not more, with him that I forgot about all the negative things, (lying) I use to do. He played and still plays a huge part in the person I am today. Using self-efficacy I was able to change my behaviors by placing myself in a more positively rewarding environment where I had fun and received just as much attention. I wasn’t lying to my parents anymore so I had more freedom to do things I wanted to. By changing this undesirable behavior I was rewarded by getting to do more things because they trusted me again. My motivation changed because I began to change personally into the person I had always strived to
In an article on self-efficacy, Zimmerman shares how a person has the ability to perform behaviors in ways that pleases them (Zimmerman, 2000). Seeing that the behaviors that I was portraying weren’t pleasing to me I knew that I had the ability to change them. Only I had the control over my own behavior and the environment that I put myself in. I stopped hanging out with my sister and her friends and started dating a guy who was really good for me. We too attended the same football games that I use to with my sister but something was different about it, in a good way. I found myself having just as much fun, if not more, with him that I forgot about all the negative things, (lying) I use to do. He played and still plays a huge part in the person I am today. Using self-efficacy I was able to change my behaviors by placing myself in a more positively rewarding environment where I had fun and received just as much attention. I wasn’t lying to my parents anymore so I had more freedom to do things I wanted to. By changing this undesirable behavior I was rewarded by getting to do more things because they trusted me again. My motivation changed because I began to change personally into the person I had always strived to