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Author Pervin, Lawrence A

Title Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (520 pages)
Series Psychology Library Editions : Social Psychology
Psychology library editions. Social psychology.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; 1 Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology: A Historical Perspective; Historical Overview of Goal Concepts; Goals and Motivation; Goals and Social Cognition; Contributions to This Volume; References; 2 Self-Regulation of Motivation and Action Through Internal Standards and Goal Systems; Attribution Theory; Expectancy-Value Theory; Goal Theory; Self-Regulation Through Moral Standards; Acknowledgment; References; 3 The Personal Striving Approach to Personality; Introduction
Current Conceptions of MotivationHistorical Background; Personal Strivings as Units of Analysis; Relation to Motives and Values; Assessing Personal Strivings; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Ups and Downs of Life Tasks in a Life Transition; Illustrative Methods for Life Task and Strategy Analysis; Themes in a Social Intelligence Analysis; Acknowledgments; References; 5 Energization and Goal Attractiveness; Introduction; Empirical Support for the Model; A Theoretical Perspective and Selected Problems; The Model in Summary; References; 6 Possible Selves: Personalized Representations of Goals
The Representation of Goals within the Self-SystemThe Self-System and Motivation Related Approaches; Why Frame Goals in Terms of the Self?; Possible Selves: Empirical Studies; The Role of Possible Selves in the Motivational Sequence: How Does It Work?; Concluding Comments; References; 7 Goals and the Self-Identification Process: Constructing Desired Identities; The Nature of Self-Identification; Desirable Images; Active and Passive Self-Identification; Summary; 8 Goal Setting Theory and Job Performance; Introduction; The Historical Context; Goal Setting Theory
Current and Emerging Research DirectionsThe Goal Setting Process; Summary; References; 9 Interpersonal Goal Conflict; The Data of Interpersonal Goal Conflict; Conceptions of Interpersonal Goal Conflict; Acknowledgement; References; 10 The Role of Goal Categories in the Representation of Social Knowledge; Action-Oriented Representations of Social Knowledge; Basic Assumptions; Goal Categories in the Representation of Event Knowledge; Goal Categories in the Representation of Person Knowledge; Goal Categories in the Representation of Knowledge About Social Organization
Goal Categories in the Representation of Self-KnowledgeConclusions; References; 11 Inter-Personalism: Toward a Goal-Based Theory of Persons in Relationships; General Framework; Person Structures; Situational Structures; Perceiving and Understanding Others; Inter-Personalism in Process: The Planning and Coordination of Behavior; Issues: Implications of this Approach; References; 12 Goal Concepts: Themes, Issues, and Questions; The Goal Concept: Definition and Essential Features; Goal Systems, the Dynamics of Goal System Functioning, and Will; Goals and Social Cognition; Conclusion; References
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Subject Goal (Psychology)
Motivation (Psychology)
Personality.
Social psychology.
Motivation
Personality
Psychology, Social
social psychology.
Goal (Psychology)
Motivation (Psychology)
Personality
Social psychology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315717517
1315717514