In sum, a robust sense of coping efficacy is accompanied by benign appraisals of potential
threats, weaker stress reactions to them, less ruminative preoccupation with them, better behavioral
management of threats, and faster recovery of well-being from any experienced distress
over them. These enabling and protective efficacy-governed processes help to weaken the enduring
distressfulness and debilitativeness of traumatizing events. The preceding sections provide
the theoretical framework for analyzing the role of perceived self-efficacy in posttraumatic
recovery. The sections that follow analyze the role of self-efficacy as one of the mechanisms governing
the recovery process across different forms of traumatizations. A profound sense of inefficacy
to manage various life demands and to exert control over tormenting ruminations
becomes a major persisting impediment to successful adaptation. The analysis of multiform
traumas provides a stringent test of the generality of the posited self-efficacy mechanism.