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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 107-127Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.1.107
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self-efficacy; motivation; personality; cognitive ability; performance
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The present study estimated the unique contribution of self-efficacy to work-related performance controlling for personality (the Big 5 traits), intelligence or general mental ability, and job or task experience. Results, based on a meta-analysis of the relevant literatures, revealed that overall, across all studies and moderator conditions, the contribution of self-efficacy relative to purportedly more distal variables is relatively small. Within moderator categories, there were several cases in which self-efficacy made unique contributions to work-related performance. For example, self-efficacy predicted performance in jobs or tasks of low complexity but not those of medium or high complexity, and self-efficacy predicted performance for task but not job performance. Overall, results suggest that the predictive validity of self-efficacy is attenuated in the presence of individual differences, though this attenuation does depend on the context.
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