The Dunning-Kruger effect says people don’t have great insight into their abilities. The unskilled think they are doing OK (relatively). The ones doing OK are less confident.
The over-confidence you have with feelings of relative self-efficacy are a characteristic of being unskilled.
There is a negative correlation of your real ability with the error in your rosy estimate of that ability and your feeling of relative self-efficacy.
Searching for ‘dunning-kruger self-efficacy’, Google’s AI Overview today tells me,
[I]ndividuals with low ability in a specific area tend
to overestimate their competence, while those with high
ability may underestimate their skills, impacting
self-efficacy. When I refresh, it tells me,
[I]ndividuals with low competence in a specific area
tend to overestimate their abilities (self-efficacy),
while those with high competence often underestimate
their skills.When I add ‘bandura’ to the search, as ‘dunning-kruger bandura self-efficacy’, it tells me,
[The] effect, where unskilled individuals overestimate their
abilities, can be seen as a potential issue in relation
to Bandura's concept of self-efficacy ..Make a mistake. Try it, you’ll like it.
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