Personal Life
Bandura was born in Mundare, in Alberta, a small town of roughly four hundred inhabitants, as the youngest child, and only son, in a family of six. The limitations of education in a remote town such as this caused Bandura to become independent and self-motivated in terms of learning, and these primarily developed traits proved very helpful in his lengthy career. Bandura is of Ukrainian and Polish descent.
The summer after finishing high school, Bandura worked in the Yukon to protect the Alaska Highway against sinking. Bandura later credited his work in the northern tundra as the origin of his interest in human psychopathology. Bandura's parents were a key influence in encouraging him to seek ventures out of the small hamlet they resided in, it was in this experience in Yukon, where he was exposed to a subculture of drinking and gambling which helped broaden his perspective and scope of views on life
Bandura arrived in the US in 1949 and naturalized in 1956. He is married to Virginia Varns and has two daughters, Carol and Mary.
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