The present article examines the nature and function of human agency within the conceptual model of triadic reciprocal causation. In analyzing the operation of human agency in this interactional causal structure, social cognitive theory accords a central role to cognitive, vicarious, self-reflective, and self-regulatory processes. The issues addressed concern the psychological mechanisms throug...

This study explores undergraduate engineering and education students’ perspectives on their interdisciplinary teams throughout the rapid transition to online learning instruction from a face-to-face virtual format. In this qualitative study, reflections focus groups three collaborations were analyzed using lens of Social Cognitive Theory. COVID-19 created dramatic change in environment such tha...

Explanations of human behavior have generally favored unidirectional causal models emphasizing either environmental or internal determinants of behavior. In social learning theory, causal processes are conceptualized in terms of reciprocal determinism. Viewed from this perspective, psychological functioning involves a continuous reciprocal interaction between behavioral, cognitive, and environm...

the aim of this research is survey of bandura theoretical foundation of self efficacy include psychological, social, and philosophical base. in this research use analytic – deduction research method to achieve the aim. thus as psychological basis, the concepts of reciprocal determinism, consciousness, learning and finally the human agency will be discussed. under the social basis the effect of ...

Social learning mechanisms, such as descriptive norms for drinking behavior (norms) and positive alcohol expectancies (PAEs), play a major role in college student alcohol use. According to the principle of reciprocal determinism (Bandura, 1977), norms and PAEs should be reciprocally associated with alcohol use, each influencing one another over time. However, the nature of these prospective rel...

Context: A number of psychosocial theories have been developed to predict, explain, and change health behaviors. The previous studies were concerned about the pain management practices based on various underpinning theories. Some of these studies utilized the Theory of Reasoned Action and the Theory of Planned Behavior. Furthermore, other pain management studies used the KAP model to assess the...

The issue of language learning strategies has long been discussed in the education field. It is undeniably important to help instructors understand learners’ individual variances and, hence, define impacts on acquisition. With uniqueness displayed each strategy, one-size-fits-all approach seems unreliable cater all needs but a preferred strategy does ensure satisfaction. objective this study in...

The computation and study of triangles in graphs is a standard tool in the analysis of real-world networks. Yet most of this work focuses on undirected graphs. Real-world networks are often directed and have a significant fraction of reciprocal edges. While there is much focus on directed triadic patterns in the social sciences community, most data mining and graph analysis studies ignore direc...

This study embarks upon uncovering the probable difference in willingness to communicate between Iranian male and female EFL learners. To undertake the present research, it was limited to socio-cognitive perspective. More precisely, it aimed to distinguish the types and frequency of socio-cognitive strategies used by Iranian students as far as their gender was concerned. In doing so, 32 advance...

This paper uses a triadic experimental design to discriminate between actions motivated by preferences over the distribution of material outcomes and actions motivated by attributions of the intentions of others. Such discrimination is essential to empirical guidance for theory development because modeling intentions is quite different than modeling preferences. The triadic design includes the ...