Toward a Psychology of Human Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23313802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Albert Bandura (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164-180 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Psychological Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-6916 • E-ISSN: 1745-6924 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00011.x |
| PMID | 26151469 |
| OpenAlex | W2132738192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 730 |
| References cited | 93 |
This article presents an agentic theory of human development, adaptation, and change. The evolutionary emergence of advanced symbolizing capacity enabled humans to transcend the dictates of their immediate environment and made them unique in their power to shape their life circumstances and the courses their lives take. In this conception, people are contributors to their life circumstances, not just products of them. Social cognitive theory rejects a duality between human agency and social structure. People create social systems, and these systems, in turn, organize and influence people's lives. This article discusses the core properties of human agency, the different forms it takes, its ontological and epistemological status, its development and role in causal structures, its growing primacy in the coevolution process, and its influential exercise at individual and collective levels across diverse spheres of life and cultural systems.
Adaptation (eye) · Agency (philosophy) · Coevolution · Cognition · Cognitive science · Core (optical fiber) · Cultural psychology · Epistemology · Evolutionary psychology · Power (physics) · Process (computing) · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance
The Role of Individual Beliefs for Corporate Sustainability Transformations
Fiction and morality
The role of relational learning in knowledge co‐production
The Influence of Self-Efficacy Beliefs of University English Instructors on their Pedagogy
Teoreettinen kehys viestintäteknologioiden käytön hallinnasta
Evaluating the usefulness of Protection Motivation Theory for predicting climate change mitigation behavioral intentions among a US sample of climate change deniers and acknowledgers
Combating language and academic culture shocks—International students’ agency in mobilizing their cultural capital
Complex Trauma and Ecological Vulnerability
Advocates and Allies
Pesquisa-Formação E Narrativa De Si
A longitudinal study on the stability and causal relationships between disability acceptance, self‐efficacy, and interpersonal ability among Koreans with disability
The impact of ethical political leadership on the public
The school of hard knocks
Employing Participatory Citizen Science Methods to Promote Age-Friendly Environments Worldwide
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Incremental theories of emotion across time
Exploring intentional use of a technological proxy, Turnitin, to enhance student academic literacy practices
The influence of teaching motivations on student engagement in an online learning environment in China
Relationship between internet self-efficacy and internet anxiety
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Entertainment-education effectively reduces prejudice
The emergence of learners’ transformative agency in a Change Laboratory intervention
Važnost stilova odlučivanja za planiranje karijere učenika srednjih škola
Will to Exist, Live and Survive” (WTELS)
Schools as Developmental Contexts During Adolescence
The maze
Young children's differential use of power during family conflict
Subordinate Felt Trust and Task Performance
A netnography of emergent Esol researcher identity and development in a virtual community of practice
Longitudinal associations between positive parenting and youths’ engagement in sexting behaviors
Student-AI collaborative creative Problem-Solving
Generative AI tools and empowerment in L2 academic writing
Health educators' professional agency in negotiating their problem‐based learning (PBL) facilitator roles
Motivators and barriers for rural community preceptors in teaching
Nonconscious processes and health.
Depressive symptoms and parenting competence
Disadvantaged older jobseekers and the concept of bounded agency
Indiana women of achievement
Differences of Personal Agency Between the Cohorts in Lithuania
Integrating Globalization into the Social Work Curriculum
Examining emic viewpoints on a pedagogical development program’s long-term effects using Q methodology
Faculty's Negative Emotions in Poor Teacher–Student Online Interactions
Mediating roles of motivational beliefs and vocabulary learning strategies for the relationship between self‐regulation and vocabulary proficiency
Making it against the odds
A prática instrumental diária de graduandos em Música
Petitioning for Social Change
Agency, Cultural Consonance and Depressive Symptoms
Boosting Learners' Confidence in Learning English
Variation in narrative identity is associated with trajectories of mental health over several years
Great expectations
Safely testing the alarm
Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence
Living into the story
Normality evaluations and their relation to personality traits and well-being
(Too) optimistic about optimism
Longitudinal analysis of the role of perceived self-efficacy for self-regulated learning in academic continuance and achievement.
Negative life events, self-efficacy, and social support
How students create motivationally supportive learning environments for themselves
Future time perspective
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory
Albert Bandura
Direct and indirect longitudinal relationships among self‐efficacy, job performance and career advancements
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between reflective and behavioural moral self‐efficacy
The Power of Belief
Portuguese higher education students’ adaptation to online teaching and learning in times of the Covid-19 pandemic
Complex problem solving
Adolescents’ body image trajectories
Mobilizing Historical Consciousness for Concerted Social Action
Predictors of online and offline activism in hybrid regime society – Serbian study
Supporting learner agency in collaborative writing with generative AI
Digital peer learning for transformative professional agency
Youth-serving institutional resources and neighborhood safety
Parental Self‐Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
Positive Development in a Disorderly World
Youth Program Adult Leader's Directive Assistance and Autonomy Support and Development of Adolescents’ Agency Capacity
Embracing Race, Resisting Oppression
Pour une éducation aux hypertrucages malveillants et un développement de l’agentivité dans les contextes numériques
Interpersonal Blame and Perceptions of Choice
Cultivating Student Agency in the PreK–12 Composition Curriculum
Resilience and why it matters for farm management
Motivation
Motivation
Metatheories, Theories, and Concepts in the Study of Development
Power, Politics, and Influence in Organizations
Psychology, History of (Twentieth Century)
Language Teacher Agency
School climate, academic self-efficacy and student achievement
Agency as a fourth aspect of students’ engagement during learning activities
Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research
Stability and Change of Moral Disengagement and Its Impact on Aggression and Violence in Late Adolescence
What is agency? Conceptualizing professional agency at work
The dynamics of proactivity at work
Subjective Well-Being in Adolescence
Coping Resources, Coping Processes, and Mental Health
Self‐Efficacy
Feminism and Evolutionary Biology
Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self
The Second Year
The Structure of Science
Exercise of Human Agency Through Collective Efficacy
Self-Efficacy Beliefs as Shapers of Children's Aspirations and Career Trajectories
The Primacy of Self‐Regulation in Health Promotion
How to build a baby
Personality, Modernity, and the Storied Self
Multifaceted Impact of Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Academic Functioning
A social cognitive view of self-regulated academic learning.
Relation of self-efficacy beliefs to academic outcomes
A meta-analysis of team-efficacy, potency, and performance
Health promotion from the perspective of social cognitive theory
Entertainment-Education and HIV/Aids Prevention
Beyond social capital
Between- and within-domain relations of academic motivation among middle and high school students
Self-management education
Social Cognitive Theory in Cultural Context
Self-Efficacy
Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means
Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance
Faces of Intention
Rationality in Action
The Sources of Normativity
Selves, Cultures, and Nations
The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity
Not By Genes Alone
Self-efficacy for self-regulated learning, academic self-efficacy, and internet self-efficacy in web-based instruction
The role of manual manipulative stages in the infant's acquisition of perceived control over objects
Training and experiences of some distinguished industrial psychologists
The psychology of chance encounters and life paths
The impact and promise of the cognitive revolution
Effects of Self-Efficacy and Social Support on the Mental Health Conditions of Mutual-Aid Organization Members
Acquisition and transmission of pacifist mentalities in Sweden
The Impact of Childcare Responsibility and Self-Efficacy on the Psychological Health of Professional Working Mothers
The Provision of a Sanctioning System in the United States and Japan
Effects of an Entertainment‐education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning Behavior in Tanzania
Aggression
Chase, Chance and Creativity
Balancing for weaknesses and challenging developmental potential
Globalization's Cultural Consequences
Sex differences in social behavior
Genetics and the diversity of behavior
Psychological sex differences
Patterns of individualism and collectivism across the United States
Social Cognitive Theory
Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities
Time, Human Agency, and Social Change
Self-efficacy and work-related performance
Myths of Gender
Human Ethology
Gardens of War
Classroom Organization and the Perception of Ability
Changing Patterns of Individualism and Collectivism in the United States and Japan
Cultural Evolution
| Unique citing works | 730 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 38,42 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 653 |