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Development of Self-efficasy as a Goal of Parenting and Education for the Global World.

Abstract Children's functioning gradually progresses from external to personal control. Once children acquire a sense of personal agency that they can make things happen, they develop affective self-reactions that serve as guides and motivators for action. A body of research shows that perceived efficacy is a common mechanism through which psychosocial influences produce their effects. Self-efficacy seems to be a key competence in the global world. The lost of stable structures and cultural conditioned certainty must be substituted by a more stable self-efficacy, stress resistance and self-esteem. The concept of self-efficacy has proved as useful for studying preschool children. These children show high self-efficacy, optimism and will to acquire new experience. It is useful to support children in a positive way, because we build a good and steady base for resisting in various life events and situations. The manner, in which parents mediate different experiences to children and how they lead them through new and stressing situations, basically influences the style, how they will deal with new and stressing situations when they grow up. The present study examines by means of qualitative methods (part of the methods presented below).

self-efficacy; preschool child; communication; cognitive style

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