Self image | Self-esteem

Why Optimists Can Achieve More

ByPsychologist & Therapist Jenny Rapp
Self-efficacy, our beliefs about our capability to perform a specific activity, can be influenced and impacts our well-being and self-esteem.
 
There are many adaptive benefits of optimistic self-beliefs of efficacy. When it comes to mental health, a study has shown that even those with no clinical level of symptoms and distress distorts reality, but in the positive direction.
 
People who have problems with social anxiety or depression have in the same study shown to be equally socially skilled but those without psychological problems think they are more adept than they really are and have a stronger belief that they can influence and somewhat control the situation.
 
This is also the case with social reformers who have a strong belief in that they can mobilize sufficient support to create social change, even though rarely realized to the fullest.
 
But these strong and exaggerated beliefs help them sustain their efforts, which often achieve results in the desired direction and change the future. If we all were realists who adapt to realities, it is likely that much important social change would not take place.
 
Source: uky.edu/~eushe2/Bandura/BanEncy.html
 
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