... in Seeman et al. 1994). However, it has also been found that more generalised measures of self-efficacy beliefs also predict behaviour (Seeman et al. 1999). A longitudinal study conducted on a cohort of older men and women, aged between 70 and 79 found that self-efficacy beliefs have significant impacts on perceptions of functional disability, independent of actual underlying physical abilities (Seeman ... ...

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