...more recent studies focus on understanding the process of aging from the perspective of the life course and the relation of coping, social support, personal control, self-efficacy, and focus on the behavioral dimensions of aging.
Wikipedia has a really clear-cut description of "self-efficacy:"
The concept of 'self-efficacy' is an important one in the self-management of chronic diseases because doctors and patients often do not follow best practice in using a treatment. For instance, a patient using combined oral contraceptive pills to prevent pregnancy may sometimes forget to take a pill at the prescribed time; thus, while the perfect-use failure rate for this form of contraception in the first year of use is just 0.3%, the typical-use failure rate is 8%
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