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Author Dweck, Carol S., 1946- author

Title Self-theories : their role in motivation, personality, and development / Carol S. Dweck
Published Philadelphia : Psychology Press, [1999]
Philadelphia : Psychology Press, c1999
c1999
©1999

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Description xiii, 195 pages ; 25 cm
Series Essays in social psychology
Essays in social psychology.
Contents Contents: Ch. 1. What Promotes Adaptive Motivation? Four Beliefs and Four Truths About Ability, Success, Praise, and Confidence -- Ch. 2. When Failure Undermines and When Failure Motivates: Helpless and Mastery-Oriented Responses -- Ch. 3. Achievement Goals: Looking Smart Versus Learning -- Ch. 4. Is Intelligence Fixed or Changeable? Students' Theories About Their Intelligence Foster Their Achievement Goals -- Ch. 5. Theories of Intelligence Predict (and Create) Differences in Achievement -- Ch. 6. Theories of Intelligence Create High and Low Effort -- Ch. 7. Implicit Theories and Goals Predict Self-Esteem Loss and Depressive Reactions to Negative Events -- Ch. 8. Why Confidence and Success Are Not Enough -- Ch. 9. What is IQ and Does It Matter? -- Ch. 10. Believing in Fixed Social Traits: Impact on Social Coping -- Ch. 11. Judging and Labeling Others: Another Effect of Implicit Theories -- Ch. 12. Belief in the Potential to Change -- Ch. 13. Holding and Forming Stereotypes
Ch. 14. How Does It All Begin? Young Children's Theories About Goodness and Badness -- Ch. 15. Kinds of Praise and Criticism: The Origins of Vulnerability -- Ch. 16. Praising Intelligence: More Praise that Backfires -- Ch. 17. Misconceptions About Self-Esteem and About How to Foster It -- Ch. 18. Personality, Motivation, Development, and the Self: Theoretical Reflections -- Ch. 19. Final Thoughts on Controversial Issues -- App. Measures of Implicit Theories, Confidence, and Goals
Summary "This text sheds light on how people work - why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows: how these patterns originate in people's self-theories; their consequences for the person - for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations; and the experiences that create them." "Throughout, Dweck shows how examining self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development. This text is a must-read for researchers in social psychology, child development, and education, and is appropriate for both graduate and senior undergraduate students in these areas."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-173) and index
Subject Achievement motivation.
Intellect.
Self psychology.
Self-esteem.
Motivation.
Self Concept.
Self Psychology.
LC no. 98051560
ISBN 0863775705
1841690244
9781841690247