Self Efficacy In The Movie

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Self-efficacy, according to the text, is described as an “expectancy or belief about how competently one will be able to enact a behavior in a particular situation “(Friedman & Schustack, 2012, p.213); without the belief that one’s actions can produce a desired outcome, there no motivation to attempt to. Perhaps this is why there is only resignation as Susanna enters the institution. Self-efficacy seems to lean more towards the nurture side of the nature/nurture debate. Achieving self-confidence, and the belief in one’s self, and their capabilities is a milestone for young adults. In the case of the movie, we witness Susanna’s journey form a troubled, self-centered apathetic teen into a caring, healthier person; capable of realistically looking at herself and the world around her. The film is the late-sixties era, portrayed through the filter of the Nineties. It depicts the institution as doling out medicine …show more content…

For all the turmoil of the last year in the hospital, life outside has remained the same. The cab driver that took her to the institution is the same one that picks her up, serving as the last metaphor-implying that the radical changes in Susanna’s thinking and personality are personal, and away from the eyes of the world, who continue to function as they always have. The title of the movie (and memoir) is taken from a painting by Vermeer, called Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Looking upon the paper, we do not see the source of the distraction, nor does the elder gentleman in the painting, whose relationship to the girl is not explained. Susanna says at the opening monologue that perhaps she is simply, a girl interrupted. The time at the institution was a life-changing event for Susanna, yet only a small part of her overall life, an interruption on her path to self-efficacy, and

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