Abstract
During our research of self-efficacy development we analysed 60 video records of mother-child pairs, who had to build bricks. The children were in preschool age.
In the analysis we focused on sources of self-efficacy. We were interested in interactions, which let the self-efficacy of the preschool children grow.
The first source of selfefficacy is the mastery experience. Mothers support the child in reaching the mastery experience.
Biggest differences are in the field of praising the child and behaviour in case of the child''s failure. It seems, that the constructive support in failure is especially important for the self-efficacy development.
The constructive cognitive style face to face with a problem is build here. Another point is structuring of the problem so, that the child can reach the goal by own engagement.