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Articulate an agentic model within social cognitive theory to explain how individuals exercise control over their functioning and life circumstances.

February 1, 2001Annual Review of Psychology

Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective

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ABAlbert BanduraKaiser Permanente

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Theoretical review reveals core mechanisms of human agency within sociostructural systems, highlighting the vital role of personal, proxy, and collective efficacy in managing life outcomes.

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Articulate an agentic model within social cognitive theory to explain how individuals exercise control over their functioning and life circumstances.
Theoretical conceptualization analyzing the psychological and sociostructural determinants of human agency.
Delineation of core agentic properties operating through consciousness: intentionality, forethought, self-regulation, and self-reflectiveness.
Classification of agency into direct personal, proxy, and collective modes within interdependent social networks.
Identified intentionality, forethought, self-reactive regulation, and self-reflectiveness as the four fundamental cognitive properties enabling human self-development and adaptation.
Established a triadic model of agency comprising individual control, proxy reliance on influential third parties, and socially coordinated collective efficacy.
Demonstrated that increasing global interdependence elevates the operational necessity of collective agency to manage shared challenges and sociopolitical destinies.

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Albert Bandura (2001) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6b2d18dca315383ed8908 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.1

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Theoretical review reveals core mechanisms of human agency within sociostructural systems, highlighting the vital role of personal, proxy, and collective efficacy in managing life outcomes.

Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective

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Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective

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