Self-efficacy

This indicator is about a person’s belief in:

• their ability to succeed in a given situation
• the degree of control they have over that situation.

Outcomes

This indicator supports an outcome of Resilience.

Ways to measure

Ways to measure this indicator include:

• The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE)
• Scale of Perceived Social Self-Efficacy (PSSE)
• Parenting Self-Agency Measure (PSAM)

See the Countering Violent Extremism Evaluation Indicator Document [Pages 10-29] for practical suggestions on ways to measure, such as:

• survey instruments
• example questions
• using administrative data.

Evaluations that use this indicator

• Evaluation of the COMPACT Program, Wise, P., Roberts S. Formosa, J. and Chan, A., Urbis, 2018