• Timothy A Judge, Christine L Jackson, John C Shaw, Brent A Scott, and Bruce L Rich.
• Department of Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7165, USA. timothy.judge@cba.ufl.edu
• J Appl Psychol. 2007 Jan 1; 92 (1): 107-27.

AbstractThe present study estimated the unique contribution of self-efficacy to work-related performance controlling for personality (the Big 5 traits), intelligence or general mental ability, and job or task experience. Results, based on a meta-analysis of the relevant literatures, revealed that overall, across all studies and moderator conditions, the contribution of self-efficacy relative to purportedly more distal variables is relatively small. Within moderator categories, there were several cases in which self-efficacy made unique contributions to work-related performance. For example, self-efficacy predicted performance in jobs or tasks of low complexity but not those of medium or high complexity, and self-efficacy predicted performance for task but not job performance. Overall, results suggest that the predictive validity of self-efficacy is attenuated in the presence of individual differences, though this attenuation does depend on the context.2007 APA, all rights reserved

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