Top-down or bottom-up? Prospective relations between general and domain-specific self-efficacy beliefs during a work-family transition

Grether, Thorana; Sowislo, Julia F.; Wiese, Bettina S.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.09.021

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“…However, other scholars have argued for the existence of general self-efficacy beliefs that cut across domains and enable students to believe they are capable of overcoming challenges even in novel situations (Grether, Sowislo, & Wiese, 2018;Schwartzer & Jerusalem, 1995). These scholars suggest that mastery experiences in any domain could contribute to students' overall senses of whether or not they can be successful (e.g., Shelton, 1990).…”

Section: Ensuring Staff Believe Students Are Capablementioning

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Strategies for Improving Self-Efficacy: A Qualitative Analysis of Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym

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Christophe

2019

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Structural inequalities present throughout U.S. public schools are known to contribute to the significant achievement gaps that persist between lower-income students of color and their more financially secure, White peers. Because of this, community programs have been identified as places where typically underserved students can receive the support required for positive development and academic achievement. The current study used qualitative methods to explore how one community program, Detroit's Downtown Boxing Gym, fosters self-efficacy in school-aged youth from Detroit Public Schools. Focus group participants reported they are indeed experiencing increases in self-efficacy as a result of the mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, and verbal persuasion they receive at the gym. Specific recommendations for how other programs might foster self-efficacy, including establishing a program climate where students feel cared for, ensuring program staff truly believe students can be successful, identifying opportunities for students to have mastery experiences, and utilizing peer modeling, are discussed.

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Section: Ensuring Staff Believe Students Are Capablementioning

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Strategies for Improving Self-Efficacy: A Qualitative Analysis of Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym

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2019

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“…The top-down approach treats domain-specific satisfaction and general life satisfaction as a function of the person, emphasizing the direct association between dispositional traits and domain/ life satisfaction (Erdogan et al, 2012). Domain-specific selfefficacy can be considered a stable personality trait (Grether et al, 2018). The direct positive association between FSE and investment satisfaction indicated that FSE plays a highly prominent role in determining one's satisfaction in the investment domain.…”

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Financial Self-Efficacy and General Life Satisfaction: The Sequential Mediating Role of High Standards Tendency and Investment Satisfaction

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et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Important strides have been made toward understanding the relationship between self-efficacy and life satisfaction. However, existing studies have largely focused on work and academic domains, leaving self-efficacy in the finance domain less frequently investigated. The present study applied the self-efficacy construct to the finance domain, namely “financial self-efficacy” (FSE), and tested the sequential mediating roles of high standards tendency and investment satisfaction in the relationship between FSE and general life satisfaction. A total of 323 employees from finance-related businesses completed anonymous questionnaires regarding FSE, high standards tendency, investment satisfaction, and general life satisfaction. Results indicated that FSE influenced general life satisfaction through investment satisfaction, and sequentially through high standards tendency and investment satisfaction. These results provide contributions to the current literature on life satisfaction, and positive psychology literature by shedding light on the roles of high standards tendency and investment satisfaction in the relation between FSE and general life satisfaction.

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“…In support of this view, research on bottom-up processes indicates that domain-specific evaluations may generalize over time to global evaluations. For example, it has been shown that task-specific and occupational self-efficacy beliefs predict subsequent changes in general self-efficacy beliefs ( Miyoshi, 2012 ; Grether et al, 2018 ). Utilizing this bottom-up perspective, we argue that the work-related perception of social impact generalizes over time to a more global perception of social impact in areas of life other than work.…”

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The Spillover of Socio-Moral Climate in Organizations Onto Employees’ Socially Responsible Purchase Intention: The Mediating Role of Perceived Social Impact

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Due to the pressing environmental and social issues facing the global economic system, the role of organizations in promoting socially responsible behavior among employees warrants attention in research and practice. It has been suggested that the concept of socio-moral climate (SMC) might be particularly useful for understanding how participative organizational structures and processes shape employees’ prosocial behaviors. While SMC has been shown to be positively related to employees’ prosocial behaviors within the work context, little is known about the potential spillover effects of SMC (i.e., associations between SMC and employees’ prosocial behaviors outside the work context). The present study aims to address this gap by investigating how and why SMC is related to employees’ socially responsible purchase intention. Drawing on the relational job design framework, we argue that employees’ perceptions of their social impact may explain why SMC is positively related to responsible purchase intentions. We collected data from 492 employees working in various industries at two measurement points with a time lag of 12 months. Hypotheses were tested using path analysis, in which we controlled for the temporal stability of the study variables. The results showed that SMC was positively related to perceived social impact and socially responsible purchase intention and that perceived social impact was positively related to socially responsible purchase intention. In addition, we found a significant indirect relationship between SMC and socially responsible purchase intention through perceived social impact. The findings provide initial support for the spillover of employees’ work-related experiences onto their responsible purchase intentions within the nonwork domain. This study contributes to the literature by extending the traditional focus of SMC research on the development of moral reasoning skills to suggest that perceived social impact is an important mechanism underlying the relationship between SMC and prosocial behaviors. In terms of practical implications, this study suggests that organizational interventions designed to increase SMC may enhance employees’ perceptions of their social impact.

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Top-down or bottom-up? Prospective relations between general and domain-specific self-efficacy beliefs during a work-family transition

Cited by 44 publications

References 55 publications

Strategies for Improving Self-Efficacy: A Qualitative Analysis of Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym

Strategies for Improving Self-Efficacy: A Qualitative Analysis of Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym

Financial Self-Efficacy and General Life Satisfaction: The Sequential Mediating Role of High Standards Tendency and Investment Satisfaction

The Spillover of Socio-Moral Climate in Organizations Onto Employees’ Socially Responsible Purchase Intention: The Mediating Role of Perceived Social Impact

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