Belief in one’s causative power drives all sustained action

Evidence

These agentic functions are rooted in the belief in one’s causative capabilities. This core self-belief, called self-efficacy, is the foundation of human aspirations, motivation, and accomplishments (Bandura, 1997). Unless people believe they can produce desired effects by their actions, they have little incentive to act or to persevere in the face of difficulties. Whatever other factors serve as guides and motivators, they are rooted in people’s core belief that they can affect the course of events by their actions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 75

Categorization

• XREF: Self-efficacy as the engine beneath motivation connects to broader questions of why people comply with or resist harmful policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 75