Solberg, V. S., & Viliarreal, P. (1997). Examination of self-efficacy, social support, and stress as predictors of psychological and physical distress among Hispanic college students. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 19(2), 182-201. This study investigated social and cognitive factors. In this article Solberg and Villareal use self-efficacy one of the concepts of the social and cognitive theory by Albert Bandura. In addition, the authors state that college self-efficacy gives students confidence in performing college tasks.
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