title: Self-efficacy with application to nursing education: a concept analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Concept analysis and self-efficacy.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article analyzes the concept self-efficacy and its relationship to nursing education using Walker and Avant's methodology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nursing literature suggests increasing students' perceived self-efficacy will help to narrow the theory-practice gap. Self-efficacy is a cognitive variable that affects performance behaviors and affective processes. Perceived self-efficacy can be influenced by a direct experience, vicarious experience, or verbal persuasion. Individuals with high levels of self-efficacy demonstrate the defining attributes of confidence, perceived capability, and perseverance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA. uhjybcb@iup.edu
authors.forename: Meigan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Robb
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D009626:Terminology as Topic