#37. Self Efficacy and How it Increases Your Mental Toughness

Mental toughness is always a focus for emergency responders. How do you build more of it? How can you be more resilient in response to the demands of the job? What are the principles that lead to healthy, happy and strong people both on and off the job?This week's Firefighter Craftsmanship podcast dives into the psychological theory of self efficacy and how you can use it to catapult not only your mental resilience but also build high performing teams using its frameworks.In this episode we cover:What is Self efficacy and why does it matterThe 5 components of self efficacy and how to use them as a frameworkHow you can empower yourself through self efficacy and reap the benefits at work and at homeReferences:Lambert, J. E., Benight, C. C., Harrison, E., & Cieslak, R. (2012). The Firefighter Coping Self-Efficacy Scale: measure development and validation. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 25(1), 79–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2011.567328Lyons, P., & Bandura, R. (2019). Self-efficacy: core of employee success. Development and Learning in Organizations, 33(3), 9–12. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-04-2018-0045Regehr, C., Hill, J., Knott, T., & Sault, B. (2003). Social support, self-efficacy and trauma in new recruits and experienced firefighters. Stress and Health, 19(4), 189–193. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.974Other resources (some of these are affiliate links!):XTI is offering all of you a 15% off discount for any of their products! Just enter Firefighter15 at checkout for the discount!XTI.US Homepage