title: Confidence: a critical review of the literature and an alternative perspective for general and specific self-confidence.
abstract: This article provides a critical review of the literature pertaining to self-confidence and advances the argument of the need to separate the construct into its general and specific domains. The rationale is that distinguishing self-confidence into general and specific will increase conceptual parsimony and predictive power of each construct.
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Mediterranean Karpasia, Nicosia, Cyprus, Turkey.
authors.forename: Emrah
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Oney
authors.forename: Gizem
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Oksuzoglu-Guven
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012649:Self Concept