(Self-efficacy cont.)   Five sources of efficacy

i) experience success or mastery experience (it refers to the experience you gain when you take on new challenges and succeed; success builds upon success, ie basis for mastery; break things down into small achievable milestones or chunks; match strategy of current skills so that can feel immediate sense of success and from this build more skills, ie provides a new positive experience.
"...the best way to learn a skill or improve our performance is by practice; part of the reason this works so well is that we are teaching ourselves that we are capable of acquiring new skills..."
Courtney E. Ackerman, 2018

ii) see others' success or vicarious experiences (observe others like yourself and their success; peer group pressure; positive feedback, etc
"...having a role model to serve and emulate. When we have positive role models who display a healthy level of self efficacy, we are likely to absorb some of those positive beliefs about self..."
Courtney E. Ackerman, 2018
This experience can come from a wide range of sources, including relatives, friends, colleagues, etc

 iii) receive specific encouragement or verbal persuasion (powerful positive motivator, ie praise, etc; know that your efforts are being appreciated; 'you can do it' or 'telling somebody they are capable', ie
"...describes the positive impact that our words can have on somebody else's self-efficacy..."
Courtney E. Ackerman, 2018)

iv) managing negative emotions (it is natural to have negative emotions; need to ensure that these emotions do not dominate, ie need to manage them, eg calm them; develop strategies to handle what could go wrong, ie set people up for success, eg build good habits, behaviours, etc.
"...emotional and psychological states referred to the importance of context and overall health and well-being development and maintenance self-efficacy. it's difficult to have a healthy level of well-being when you are struggling with anxiety or depression, will that being a serious health condition...... but it is certainly much easier to boost self-efficacy when you're healthy and well..."
Courtney E. Ackerman, 2018)
(for more detail, see elsewhere in the Knowledge Base)

v) imaginal experience or visualisation (this allows you to imagine future success in detail and to help you build a belief that succeeding is possible;
NB the first 3 sources can help you handle 4th, ie negative emotions; the 5th source is not as well researched as the other 4.