The purpose of this study was to examine how much the recognition of the degree of task-importance and task-preference had an effect upon the generalization of self-efficacy.
To evaluate the generalization of self-efficacy, the following three dependent variables were used: (a) self-efficacy predicting the present performance, (b) “future” self-efficacy predicting a performance after ten basketball lessons, and (c) volition including attitudes and interests to the task. The results were follows: (1) The more importantly the task was recognized with the self-efficacy being enhanced by training, the more strongly the “present” and “future” self-efficacy were generalized in the other tasks. (2) The more preferably the task was recognized with the self-efficacy being enhanced by training, the more strongly the self-efficacy was generalized interms of volition in the other tasks. (3) The degree of the generalization of self-efficacy differed from task to task.