Profiles of Personal Agency: Ethnocultural Variations in Self -Efficacy Beliefs

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Title: Profiles of Personal Agency: Ethnocultural Variations in Self -Efficacy Beliefs
Author(s): Feasel, Karen Elaine
Issue Date: 1999
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Kellina Craig
Department of Study: Psychology
Discipline: Psychology
Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name: Ph.D.
Degree Level: Dissertation
Keyword(s): Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
Language: eng
Abstract: The findings presented call into question assumptions about the universal nature of self-efficacy appraisal and suggest some of the potential consequences of different cultural value orientations for the experience of personal agency. Discussion centers on within-group patterns of individualist and collectivist value orientations, implications for measuring individualism and collectivism among ethnocultural groups in the U.S., considerations relevant to the measurement of collective efficacy, and the consequences of individualism and collectivism for the development and experience of personal agency.
Graduation Semester: 1999
Type of Resource: text
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