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The Effect of Self‐Efficacy and Issue Characteristics on Threat and Opportunity Categorization 1
Author(s) -
Mohammed Susan,
Billings Robert S.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb01435.x
Subject(s) - psychology , framing (construction) , social psychology , self efficacy , perception , categorization , categorical variable , opportunity cost , computer science , economics , microeconomics , engineering , structural engineering , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , machine learning
The purpose of the current study was to examine self‐efficacy and issue characteristics as antecedents of issue categorization. A laboratory experiment using 277 participants manipulated self‐efficacy, scenario category (threat/opportunity), and scenario strength (weak/strong), and subsequently measured perceptions of threat and opportunity. Results indicate that high self‐efficacy participants categorized scenarios as more representative of opportunity and that self‐efficacy influenced the framing of opportunity scenarios, but not threat scenarios. Parallel results were found across both categorical and dimensional threat and opportunity measures.