Perceived self-regulatory efficacy predicts resistance to antisocial behavior

Evidence

People’s belief in their self-regulatory efficacy is also a contributor to controllability. Those with high perceived self-regulatory efficacy mount stronger control efforts, persevere in the face of difficulties, and are likely to attribute setbacks to external conditions that are changeable rather than to inherent personal deficiencies that render one powerless in difficult circumstances (Bandura, 1997). The higher the perceived self-regulatory efficacy in resisting social pressures to behave transgressively, the lower the engagement in antisocial activities (Caprara, Regalia, & Bandura, 2002). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 330

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 330