Efficacy, agency, and self-esteem /
Challenging current notions in self-esteem literature, this volume offers new insights into efficacy, agency, and self-esteem as well as the influence of these constructs on psychological well-being. Articles -contributed by prominent researchers- contain substantial new theoretical and empirical re...
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[1995]
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| Series: | Plenum series in social/clinical psychology.
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Table of Contents:
- Is the self motivated to do more than enhance and/or verify itself? / Seymour Epstein and Beth Morling
- Human autonomy : the basis for true self-esteem / Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan
- Not all high (or low) self-esteem people are the same : theory and research on stability of self-esteem / Keegan D. Greenier, Michael H. Kernis and Stefanie B. Waschull
- Toward a dual-motive depth psychology of self and social behavior / Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon
- The evaluative organization of self-knowledge : origins, process, and implications for self-esteem / Carolin Showers
- Interpersonal functions of the self-esteem motive : the self-esteem system as a sociometer / Mark R. Leary and Deborah L. Downs
- Self-esteem and the extended self-evaluation maintenance model : the self in social context / Steven R.H. Beach and Abraham Tesser
- Overcoming a lack of self-assurance in an achievement domain : creating agency in daily life / Robert E. Harlow and Nancy Cantor
- Implicit theories of intelligence : reconsidering the role of confidence in achievement motivation / Ying-yi Hong, Chi-yue Chiu, and Carol S. Dweck
- Need for control and self-esteem : two routes to a high desire for control / Jerry M. Burger
- Efficacy, agency, and self-esteem : emerging themes and future directions / Michael H. Kernis.