According to our textbook, self-efficacy is the belief that 'a personal achievement depends on personal actions.' This means that a person is inclined to solve problems in a way unique to them, though it is directly related to how they observe the people around them solve their own problems. The idea of self-efficacy is a facet of the Social Learning Theory, which focuses on people learning based upon how they interpret their own experiences and observations of others.
What I find most interesting about this is the reference to the modeled habits of parents. If they feel their child is particularly strong willed, the parent is inclined to become stricter, in an attempt to make their child more self-reliant. This is often due to their feeling, in a way, inferior to their offspring. It's very much a 'monkey-see, monkey-do situation; children either decide to handle situations parallel to how they observed their parents to respond, or in the absolute inverse way. A good example of this is how I respond to things in a very removed, level way, after watching both of my parents respond in a more hasty and reactive way. Since their reactions are often heavy handed, my own responses, as well as those of my sisters, tend toward a quieter assessing of the given situation.
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