The awareness that self actions can be effective in producing consequences that can become predictable. A more detailed definition is provided by Bandura (1986)
‚apperceived self-efficacy is defined as people’s judgments of their capabilities to organise and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances. It is concerned not with the skills one has but with judgments of what one can do with whatever skills one possesses” (p. 391)
. See Self