Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section having a plurality of pixels each including an electro-optical element, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, and a holding capacitor; a power supply scanning circuit; and a signal outputting circuit; wherein the power supply scanning circuit is operable to supply a second power supply potential to initialize the potential of a second electrode of the driving transistor and then change over the potential of a power supply line to a first power supply potential; and the signal outputting circuit is operable to output, when the writing transistor is in a conducting state, a first reference potential, supply, midway while a threshold value correction process is carried out, a second reference potential, output a third reference potential within a period within which the writing transistor remains in the conducting state, and output a image signal after the threshold correction process ends.