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Identity, Efficacy, and Personal Factors
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Efficacy comes from the inner strength of knowing and believing in yourself (identity) and effectively
addressing key personal factors that can act as roadblocks or speed bumps, impeding and slowing your
progress. We can’t control everything in life; sometimes accidents and setbacks simply occur. These are
our personal factors, and they do have an impact on our performance. The strength of your affective skill
set (how you cope and respond, emotionally), the strength of your identity, and your belief in your own
ability to make a difference (your efficacy) are what determines the quality of your life, both now as well
as in the future.
L
EARNING
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BJECTIVES
This learning activity will teach you to:
1. Begin to believe that you are capable of changing your own perceptions of your past in order to
increase your future growth.
2. Have the confidence that any future personal factor can be addressed and handled in a productive
manner.
3. Realize that family, friends, and community can support you but shouldn’t be allowed to limit you.
P
ERFORMANCE
C
RITERIA
If you successfully complete this activity, you will be able to
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Leverage a past or present issue so that it can contribute productively to the way you approach the future
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Discover why you feel bad about the past or current situation
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Determine what strengths you had at that time
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Remove or disassemble the barriers that could restrict your future growth
P
LAN
1.
Read the scenarios in the Model for this experience.
2.
As a team, complete a
Learning and then Moving On worksheet
based on one of the scenarios.
3.
Answer the Critical Thinking Questions.
R
ESOURCES
Performance Levels for Risk Taking Learning and then Moving On worksheet
M
ODEL
Scenario One
Lisa is a 22 year-old single mother with a 4-year old son. She has been working since she was 16,
struggling to support herself and provide an additional $10,000 per year to her mom. She continued
trying to do this while going to nursing school, but the load of working 30 hours a week, going to