Self-Efficacy Shapes Modernization

Self-Efficacy Shapes Modernization PDF Author: Barbara Drosten
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 364391041X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Book Description
Self-efficacy (SE) is the critical link between environment, culture, institutions, modernization, and development. It enables adaptive learning from environmental stimuli, and fosters agency, cooperation, goal setting, openness, opportunity recognition, and longer-term planning. SE can be regarded as fertilizer for any policy measure. Research amongst smallholder farmers in South Ghana shows that historical return on investment culturally bequeathed investment SE, which largely influences today's farming investment and household income. SE is well malleable and perceptive to intentional promotion.