<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bandura, A.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Exercise of human agency through collective efficacy</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Current Directions in Psychological ScienceCurrent Directions in Psychological ScienceCurrent Directions in Psychological Science</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Curr Dir Psychol Sci</style></alt-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Curr Dir Psychol SciCurr Dir Psychol Sci</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">collective agency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">collectivism-individualism</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">emergent properties</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">interdependence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">multilevel</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">perceived self-efficacy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">performance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">self-efficacy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social cognitive theory</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">team</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2000</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jun</style></date></pub-dates></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">75-78</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0963-7214</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Social cognitive theory adopts an agentic perspective in which individuals are producers of experiences and shapers of events. Among the mechanisms of human agency, none is more focal or pervading than the belief of personal efficacy. This core belief is the foundation of human agency. Unless people believe that they can produce desired effects and forestall undesired ones by their actions, they have little incentive to act. The growing interdependence of human functioning is placing a premium on the exercise of collective agency through shared beliefs in the power to produce effects by collective action. The present article analyzes the nature of perceived collective efficacy and its centrality in how people live their lives. Perceived collective efficacy fosters groups&amp;#39; motivational commitment to their missions, resilience to adversity, and performance accomplishment.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">WOS:000170930500001</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">471lh&lt;br/&gt;Times Cited:354&lt;br/&gt;Cited References Count:20</style></notes><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bandura, A&lt;br/&gt;Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA&lt;br/&gt;Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA&lt;br/&gt;Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA</style></auth-address></record></records></xml>