Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better : A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims
Hamann, Karen R S ; Wullenkord, Marlis C LU
; Reese, Gerhard
and van Zomeren, Martijn
(2024)
In Personality and Social Psychology Review
28(1).
p.11-53
- Abstract
Many people do not act together against climate change or social inequalities because they feel they or their group cannot make a difference. Understanding how people come to feel that they can achieve something (a perception of
self-efficacy) is therefore crucial for motivating people to act together for a better world. However, it is difficult to summarize already existing self-efficacy research because previous studies have used many different ways of naming and measuring it. In this article, we uncover the problems that this raises and propose the triple-A framework as a solution. This new framework shows which agents, actions, and aims are important for understanding self-efficacy. By offering specific recommendations for... (More)Many people do not act together against climate change or social inequalities because they feel they or their group cannot make a difference. Understanding how people come to feel that they can achieve something (a perception of
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self-efficacy) is therefore crucial for motivating people to act together for a better world. However, it is difficult to summarize already existing self-efficacy research because previous studies have used many different ways of naming and measuring it. In this article, we uncover the problems that this raises and propose the triple-A framework as a solution. This new framework shows which agents, actions, and aims are important for understanding self-efficacy. By offering specific recommendations for measuring self-efficacy, the triple-A framework creates a basis for mobilizing human agency in the context of climate change and social injustice.
- author
- Hamann, Karen R S
; Wullenkord, Marlis C
LU
; Reese, Gerhard
and van Zomeren, Martijn
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-02
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- efficacy, self-efficacy, collective efficacy, environmental psychology, efficacy theory, agency, transformation
- in
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 43 pages
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
-
- pmid:37386819
- scopus:85164189089
- ISSN
- 1532-7957
- DOI
- 10.1177/10888683231178056
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 43c56bf6-a6b0-4225-b6bf-e6c0bb399009
- date added to LUP
- 2023-07-01 20:40:18
- date last changed
- 2025-10-19 12:49:00
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