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Self-Esteem
The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard
Häftad, 2012
1355 kr
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Summarizing and integrating the major empirical research of the past twenty years, this volume presents a thorough review of the subject, with a special focus on what sets people with low self-esteem apart from others. As the subject is central to the understanding of personality, mental health, …
Self-Handicapping
The Paradox That Isn’t
Av Raymond L. Higgins, C.R. Snyder m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1680 kr
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The concept of self-handicapping can be legitimately anchored in a vari ety of intellectual contexts, some old and some newer. As this volume reminds us, Alfred Adler was perhaps the first to articulate the signifi cance of various self-defeating claims and gestures for protecting the self …
How People Change
Inside and Outside Therapy
Av Rebecca C. Curtis, George Stricker
Inbunden, 1991
1122 kr
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In the myth of Daphne and Apollo, Cupid fired two arrows: one causing flight from love, the other passionate attraction. Cupid aimed his first arrow at Daphne, a beautiful nymph who loved her freedom; the next struck Apollo, who lusted after Daphne. Daphne, frightened and intent upon virginity, …
Self-Knower
A Hero Under Control
Av R.A. Wicklund, Martina Eckert
Inbunden, 1992
1122 kr
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The self-knower has become a hero within many contemporary cultures. This hero goes by various different titles, including the" self-insightful/' the "self-actualized/' the "autonomous and mature/' the "representative of independent thinking/' the "morally virtuous/' and many more. The common …
Desire for Control
Personality, Social and Clinical Perspectives
Inbunden, 1992
1122 kr
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This book is a cumulation of a research program that began in the sum mer of 1978, when I was a doctoral student at the University of Missouri. What started as a graduate student' s curiosity about individual differ ences in need for personal control led to a personality scale, a few pub …
Aggressive Behavior
Current Perspectives
Inbunden, 1994
1585 kr
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In this important work twelve eminent scholars review the latest theoretical work on human aggressive behavior. Emerging theories of aggression; peers, sex-roles, and aggression; environmental investigation and mitigation of aggression; development of adult aggression; and group aggression in …
Ecology of Aggression
Inbunden, 1994
1059 kr
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Adopting a unique situation-oriented perspective, this book studies the occurence and control of aggression on the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of physical and social ecologies. The wide ranging viewpoint clarifies important aspects of all forms of aggression to provide psychologists, …
Human Learned Helplessness
A Coping Perspective
Inbunden, 1994
1680 kr
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Summarizing 25 years of research, the author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework. Dr. Mikulincer accounts for the complex nature of the phenomenon by focusing …
Procrastination and Task Avoidance
Theory, Research, and Treatment
Av Joseph R. Ferrari, Judith L. Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1791 kr
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Procrastination is a fascinating, highly complex human phenomenon for which the time has come for systematic theoretical and therapeutic effort. The present volume reflects this effort. It was a labor of love to read this scholarly, timely book-the first of its kind on the topic. It was especially …
Self-Efficacy, Adaptation, and Adjustment
Theory, Research, and Application
Inbunden, 1995
1680 kr
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Covering over fifteen years of research, this compilation offers the first comprehensive review of the relationships between self-efficacy, adaptation, and adjustment. Following a general overview of self-efficacy, renowned researchers discuss important topics such as depression, anxiety, addictive …
Efficacy, Agency, and Self-Esteem
Inbunden, 1995
1122 kr
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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. The contributions by prominent researchers contain substantial new theoretical and empirical …
Pathological Self-Criticism
Assessment and Treatment
Inbunden, 1995
1122 kr
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Raymond M. Bergner offers the first comprehensive reference to address the highly prevalent and debilitating forms of self-criticism. This resource features an extensive array of strategies for assessing these patterns as well as the factors maintaining them. In addition, the volume is complete …
Psychology of Vandalism
Inbunden, 1996
1680 kr
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In The Psychology of Vandalism, Arnold P. Goldstein thoroughly examines the status, causation, prevention, and remediation of vandalistic behavior. Goldstein provides vandal- and environment-oriented explanations and interventions. He includes 169 tactics to reduce vandalism as well as ways for …
Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment
A New Frontier in Mental Health Law
Av Deborah L. Dennis, John Monahan
Inbunden, 1996
1122 kr
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Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained description and analysis of what happens when `aggressive' treatment becomes `coerced' treatment. Mental health …
Social Cognitive Psychology
History and Current Domains
Av David F. Barone, James E. Maddux m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2237 kr
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Social Cognitive Psychology is the first text to provide comprehensive coverage of the field, including thorough discussions of its historical foundations cross-referenced with significant recent developments. Highlights include ;the discipline's origins in pragmatic philosophy and the need for a …
Social Cognitive Psychology
History and Current Domains
Av David F. Barone, James E. Maddux m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
1122 kr
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A pragmatic social cognitive psychology covers a lot of territory, mostly in personality and social psychology but also in clinical, counseling, and school psychologies. It spans a topic construed as an experimental study of mechanisms by its natural science wing and as a study of cultural …
Sourcebook of Social Support and Personality
Av Gregory R. Pierce, Brian Lakey m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1585 kr
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The work of 47 contributors from the U.S., Canada, and Israel, the Sourcebook gives special attention to the complexity of the social support construct, expanding the field's theoretical base by seriously reappraising social support research in the context of findings from other fields of …
Aversive Interpersonal Behaviors
Inbunden, 1997
1585 kr
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Aversive behaviors have greater influence on social interactions than is generally acknowledged, determining personal satisfaction, interpersonal attraction, choice of partners, and the course of relationships. What motivates aversive behaviors? To what extent do they obtain desired outcomes? In …
Personal Control in Action
Cognitive and Motivational Mechanisms
Av Miroslaw Kofta, Gifford Weary m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1680 kr
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Human beings are agents: They may exert influence over their own fate. They initiate their actions, experience a considerable degree of freedom and control in their mundane activities, and respond adversely to external constraints to their agency; they are able to monitor and modify their moti- …
Advanced Personality
Av David F. Barone, Michel Hersen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1585 kr
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Embracing all aspects of personality study, Advanced Personality addresses major established theories and vital current research topics in the field, from the perspectives of both clinical and scholarly settings. This impressive text-reference features chapters that cover, among other …
Importance of Psychological Traits
A Cross-Cultural Study
Av John E. Williams, Robert C. Satterwhite m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1122 kr
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All traits were not created equal. -WORCHEL AND COOPER (1983, p. 180) This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance ofdifferent psychological traits in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. While the …
Stress, Culture, and Community
The Psychology and Philosophy of Stress
Av S.E. Hobfoll
Inbunden, 1998
2460 kr
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This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource …
Revised NEO Personality Inventory
Clinical and Research Applications
Inbunden, 1998
2237 kr
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The assessment of individual differences has a long history. As early as 2200 B.C. the Chinese were employing methods to select candidates for civil service positions. Over the ensuing centuries philosophers, theologians, and the nobility all noticed and debated the role of "character" in shaping …
Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults
A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Practice
Av Gail M. Williamson, David R. Shaffer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1680 kr
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Aging is inevitable-A "psychological recession" is not . . . As I go about my daily life, I read and hear about the sometimes scary things that are happening to other people. As the saying goes, bad news sells newspapers. But I u- ally can take some solace in reasoning that this bad stuff assuredly …
Handbook of Social Comparison
Theory and Research
Inbunden, 2000
2111 kr
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Comparison of objects, events, and situations is integral to judgment; comparisons of the self with other people comprise one of the building blocks of human conduct and experience. After four decades of research, the topic of social comparison is more popular than ever. In this timely handbook a …
Humor
The Psychology of Living Buoyantly
Inbunden, 2001
1059 kr
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In his earlier work the author has studied stress and the personality characteristics that protect us from its effects on health and well-being. In this new book he places humor firmly within the literatures of coping processes, the moderation of stressful experiences, and health by showing how …
Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change
Inbunden, 2001
1585 kr
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This title provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their "internested" social …
Anatomy of Masochism
Inbunden, 2001
1585 kr
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Are dominance and submission inevitable in human relationships? Believing that sadomasochism is becoming an ever more obtrusive phenomenon in developed countries, the author surveyed 48 self-declared sadomasochists (43 male, 5 female) and 35 controls (26 male, 9 female) in an effort to elicit …
Psychology of Secrets
Inbunden, 2002
1585 kr
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On an MTV special aired in 2000, young interviewees were asked to confess the worse thing they were ever told during a romantic breakup. One person tearfully responded "that I suck in bed. " More recently, an acquaintance of mine admitted to his new girlfriend that he "has a mean streak. " She …
Trauma, War, and Violence
Public Mental Health in Socio-Cultural Context
Av Joop de Jong, Joop T. V. M. de Jong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1680 kr
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Massive traumatic stress resulting from armed conflict and terrorism is a prime concern of governments, non-government organizations and the United Nations. Yet there is little systematic knowledge of how to address psychological problems of these proportions. These situations are further …
