self efficacy, locus of control
Page 66 self efficacy, locus of control. The belief in your mastery over your life, and your ability to meet challenges as they arise is what psychologist call self efficacy. It's your self being effective. Albert, Mendora, a Stanford psychologist and the leading researcher on self efficacy, put it clearly People who have a sense of self efficacy, bounce back from failures, they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.
— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Adversity Quotient, Turning Obstacles into Opportunities by Paul G. Stoltz
In the book
This mental strength is not only for the crisis; it makes ordinary life better too, raising your satisfaction and your performance because you act from your values instead of your fears. Psychologists call the belief in your own ability to meet whatever arises self-efficacy, and those who have it bounce back from failure precisely because they approach trouble asking "how do I handle this?" rather than "what could go wrong?" And there is a paradox worth holding here, one I have lived: take responsibility for a failure even when it is not objectively your fault — not because the blame is fair, but because responsibility is the only door to fixing it; the person who refuses it is left waiting, helplessly, for someone else to set things right. Hold that beside its necessary balance, though: you are not responsible for the things that genuinely were not yours. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)