Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a common anxiety disorder that is distinguished by a pattern of prolonged worrying, nervousness, tension, and anxiety. People who are diagnosed to have this disorder experience unreasonable worry about health, money, death, family and other interpersonal relationship problems or work difficulties, that is excessive, uncontrollable, and disproportionate to the actual source of worry. This severe...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
The social cognitive approach to personality supports the conviction that personality is determined in part by an individual’s cognitions, which include the person’s thoughts, feelings, values and expectations. Perceived Self-Efficacy Whether or not people perform certain actions largely depends on their expectancies or expectations pertinent to the desired outcome. Albert Bandura, one of the proponents of the social cognitive approach...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters