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Low self-agency is not a moral failing; there are many social, economic, and cultural reasons people may feel that they have little control over their lives.
You have probably come across people with low self-agency in your everyday life. Perhaps you know a coworker who constantly complains about their workload but never takes it up with their supervisor, a family member who believes they are cursed with bad luck. This may be because they are struggling with low self-agency.
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Personal agency, or self-agency, describes the experiences we have when we set goals for ourselves and take action to achieve them.
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