Self-efficacy concerns perceived capability to perform a specific behavior in its relevant context. Mastery, vicarious experience, credible persuasion, and interpreted bodily or emotional states inform that judgment. Communication should build calibrated capability beliefs alongside skills, resources, and opportunity, rather than confuse confidence with competence or structural permission.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Concepts & Constructs
Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.