Self-efficacy refers to perceived ability in specific domains of activities. outcome expectation, determine the initiation of the process to perform a behaviour, to expend effort and to continue to do so when difficulties are arising ( Bandura 1990). (self)-efficacy expectation, and the person’s belief that the desired behaviour has a positive effect, i.e. The confidence a person has to successfully execute a specific behaviour or task in the future, i.e. Self-efficacy theory is considered as one of the most powerful determinants of behaviour ( Bandura 1977). Findings related to HLC predicting health behaviour are weak and inconsistent ( Wallston 1992) (see Ch. ![]() bad weather, no time, no social support). I did not exercise enough today because I was not in the mood, or did not put in enough effort) or whether an outcome is independent of one’s actions (external control), attributing it to fate or chance (e.g. Health locus of control (HLC)( Rotter 1954) differentiates between whether people attribute an outcome to their own abilities or actions and, as such, is under their personal (internal) control (e.g. High SOC is associated with perceived good health and predictive of positive health outcomes ( Eriksson & Lindstrom 2005). As it is a personality trait it is more likely to be a predictor of behaviour than a factor to influence in interventions. The more a person is able to understand and integrate (comprehensibility), to handle (manageability) and to make sense (meaningfulness) of an experience or disease, the greater the individual’s potential to successfully cope with the situation or the disease. SOC integrates the meaningfulness, comprehensibility and manageability of a situation or disease. ![]() within the personality) that enables coping with adverse experience ( Antonovsky 1979, 1990, Eriksson & Lindstrom 2006). Sense of coherence (SOC) is considered as an adaptive dispositional orientation (i.e. ![]() Alison Hammond PhD MSc BSc(Hons), Karin Niedermann MPH BScPT, in Rheumatology, 2010 Beliefs or cognitions: sense of coherence, health locus of control, self-efficacy
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