He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a
social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group
acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is
therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»
For example,
acceptance from peers and closeness to parents are important predictors of adolescents» global self - esteem (Skogbrott Birkeland et al. 2014), and might
therefore also be important for the level of
social self - efficacy.