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Self-Esteem
The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard
Häftad, 2012
1336 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, …
Pathological Self-Criticism
Assessment and Treatment
Häftad, 2010
1111 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 …
Personal Control in Action
Cognitive and Motivational Mechanisms
Av Miroslaw Kofta, Gifford Weary m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1663 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- …
The Importance of Psychological Traits
A Cross-Cultural Study
Av John E. Williams, Robert C. Satterwhite m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1111 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 …
Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change
Häftad, 2010
1663 kr
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Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change 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 …
Self-Defeating Behaviors
Experimental Research, Clinical Impressions, and Practical Implications
Häftad, 2011
561 kr
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In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands. And ate of it. I said: "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. " Stephen Crane The Black Riders and Other …
The Psychology of Secrets
Häftad, 2012
1668 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 …
Psychological Sense of Community
Research, Applications, and Implications
Av Adrian T. Fisher, Christopher C. Sonn m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1668 kr
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In this book, the authors have explored a series of different types of communities - moving from the basic idea of those based at a specific location all the way to virtual communities of the internet. The ways in which the communities operate, positively and negatively, what people get out of them …
Anatomy of Masochism
Häftad, 2012
1668 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 …
The Ecology of Aggression
Häftad, 2012
1052 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, …
Handbook of Social Comparison
Theory and Research
Häftad, 2012
2443 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
Häftad, 2012
1114 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 …
Aggression
Biological, Developmental, and Social Perspectives
Av Seymour Feshbach, Jolanta Zagrodzka
Häftad, 2012
529 kr
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In this volume leading international authorities present the results of their original scientific studies of aggressive behavior. Written in honor of the eminent Polish psychologist, Adam Fraczec, for this work in this area, the contributed chapters highlight the similarities and differences in the …
Self-Efficacy, Adaptation, and Adjustment
Theory, Research, and Application
Häftad, 2013
1668 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 …
Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults
A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Practice
Av Gail M. Williamson, David R. Shaffer m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1668 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 …
Trauma, War, and Violence
Public Mental Health in Socio-Cultural Context
Av Joop de Jong
Häftad, 2013
1779 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 …
Aggressive Behavior
Current Perspectives
Häftad, 2013
1574 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 …
Aversive Interpersonal Behaviors
Häftad, 2013
1668 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 …
Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment
A New Frontier in Mental Health Law
Av Deborah L. Dennis, John Monahan
Häftad, 2013
1114 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 …
Desire for Control
Personality, Social and Clinical Perspectives
Häftad, 2013
1114 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 …
The Psychology of Vandalism
Häftad, 2013
1668 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 …
Procrastination and Task Avoidance
Theory, Research, and Treatment
Av Joseph R. Ferrari, Judith L. Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1779 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 …
How People Change
Inside and Outside Therapy
Av Rebecca C. Curtis, George Stricker
Häftad, 2013
1114 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-Handicapping
The Paradox That Isn’t
Av Raymond L. Higgins, C.R. Snyder m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1668 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 …
Human Learned Helplessness
A Coping Perspective
Häftad, 2013
1668 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 …
The Self-Knower
A Hero Under Control
Av R.A. Wicklund, Martina Eckert
Häftad, 2013
1114 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 …
Efficacy, Agency, and Self-Esteem
Häftad, 2013
1114 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. Articles -contributed by prominent researchers- contain substantial new theoretical and empirical …
Sourcebook of Social Support and Personality
Av Gregory R. Pierce, Brian Lakey m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1668 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 …
The Revised NEO Personality Inventory
Clinical and Research Applications
Häftad, 2013
2443 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 …
