Bandura Self-Efficacy

According to Bandura self-efficacy levels of confidence can be defined as when students feel their actions can influence the outcome of a given situation within their life and academic performance. When an individual feels that are able to influence the outcome they begin to feel better about themselves and accomplishments whilst developing a sense of power and control over what happens in their world. Once an individual or student develop self-efficacy, they develop the ability to act, think and feel differently about themselves (Lane, Lane, & Kyprianou, 2004). Self-efficacy can therefore be determined as individuals or students that feel better about themselves and their ability to achieve a specific task given.

Cognitive influences of self-efficacy is Self-esteem and can be defined as an individuals or students subjective emotional evaluation and self-judgement to themselves. Self-esteem levels
These individuals are also more than likely to give into peer pressure and result in taking drugs and drinking alcohol, increasing the risk of dropping out of their studies (Yason, 2014). Individuals or students that have high low self-efficacy and high self-esteem show characteristics of confidence and inflated sense of effectiveness whilst at the same time believing that have little to no impact in the general surrounds or task given. Low self-efficacy and low self-esteem is when an individual sense of worth and effectiveness is low, leaving the individual to feel lost about their purpose and abilities. These findings assist in understanding the relationship between self-efficacy and self-esteems and their influence on academic performance (Hajloo,