Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a comprehensive and high quality video. The explanation was crystal clear, especially the delineation of the differences among the concepts of Self-Esteem, Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy.
I really got a lot from this video thank you. As an educator counselor and psychotherapist I like to try and promote my personal feelings to like mind colleges, teachers, counselors etc .. in relation to over use of the word "HE" especially when it is been used to point something out and even more importantly that it stops been used when they want to make a point about doing something wrong/bad behavior. For example you used "HE" for he bad driving scenario. I feel we as educators must stop this and use the word "they" instead. As "they" leaves it open to the listener ( observer ) to make their own minds up to who is driving the car ( who is behaving badly ). That way its fair play and is not suggesting Men are bad all the time..... It also important that while working with students we be aware we are not implanting unconscious bios, as a psychotherapist I am very aware of the power of words and that we must stay open to the fact that girls. ladies, women can also be not so well behaved and we do not use the word "SHE" either. Its interesting you said "HER" in relation to feelings towards the end of your presentation. A reference from Bong & Skaakvik also made reference to her and feelings, Again I am pretty sure "they" would work just as well, Men do have feelings to. Men behave badly - Women are all feeling ? Teachers fostering students is in you title, we must also be role models and mentor our students, clients etc .... only stating men doing bad things and women are all feeling is not giving use guys a chance to be honest. My decision to make this comment on what I observed is based on my valuing equality. Regards Gerard
Thanks for the message. I agree with you that we need to be careful in how we use gender to refer to different people in different situations. In writing, I always use “they” when possible. However, sometimes it’s not possible if I want to be grammatically correct. In that case, my strategy in referring to just one person is to use “s/he” (in writing) or to alternate by using “he” sometimes and “she” other times. That’s my typical strategy when speaking in my videos. I’m very conscious of it and always try to think carefully about it, but there’s always room for improvement. I can’t wait until some English expert gives us a fix that is acceptable according the English grammar Gods! :)
Brett D. Jones Your more than welcome, thank you for your reply. Well I say let these people correct your grammar, the word pedantic comes to mind when I'm dealing with people who like to make grammatic corrections. May be it would be a good idea at the start of a lecture to lead in with "for the purpose of this lecture I will be using the words they, or them, instead of he/she in situation examples" and tell them why. Students are like children and nearly believe every word we say to be true, I personally believe in order to save the next generation from stereotypes, prejudices, etc ... educators must be very sensitive to use of gender when they are using stories as examples to help their students understand what they are trying to say. I just feel attaching HE to bad things and SHE to good healthy things is giving the wrong message. I suffer with dyspraxia, so as you can read my syntax is not perfect, also I did say "maybe" so I'm not telling anyone what to do especially a professor. Us guys have it hard enough in this crazy rocking roll world we live in so let's not make it any harder. Regards Gerard
@@MayMay-zd3jx Thanks for the clarification. That's what I meant 5 years ago, but sometimes I write things quickly on these sites. To be even more precise, we should say that we need to use they. In the past 5 years since this post, the American Psychological Association has allowed us to use "they" in place of singular pronouns, so that solves this issue and it's technically correct now! Hooray!
Thankful I found this and most grateful to you Sir for making it available. I understand the differences between the 3 terms clearly! Really appreciate it. Thanks
It depends on what you mean by self confident :) Self-efficacy is in relation to a specific activity (How confident are you that you can solve this math problem?). Self confidence often refers to someone's more general or typical level of confidence to do a variety of things (He's a really confident person.) In that case, they are not the same thing because self-efficacy is related to a specific task and can be changed fairly easily (For example, if you teach someone how to solve the math problem they didn't previously know how to solve.). Whereas, self confidence is generally seen more as a personality trait that is more stable over your lifetime; and thus, would not change very easily.
The best explanation of this that I have provided in a video is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rlA0EyMzP-g.html I don't directly answer your question though. The issue of how self-determination is related to self-esteem is not straight forward and I think it would be mediated by self-efficacy and value. But I would have to think though it more. I don't know of studies that have examined that exact relationship off the top of my head.
Thanks for your interest. I don't have a publication that exactly represents this video, but you can cite this RU-vid video. Some of these concepts are covered in the references at the end of the video and in my book --> Jones, B. D. (2018). Motivating students by design: Practical strategies for professors (2nd ed.). Charleston, SC: CreateSpace.