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Self-theories
Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development
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- Published: January 2000
- ISBN: 978-1-84169-024-7
- Publisher: Psychology Press
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- By Carol S. Dweck.
Part of the Essays in Social Psychology series
This innovative 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
*The experiences that create them.
This outstanding 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.
Table of Contents
Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1. What promotes adaptive motivation? Four beliefs and four truths about ability, success, praise, and confidence. Chapter 2. When failure undermines and when failure motivates: Helpless and Mastery-Oriented Responses. Chapter 3. Achievement goals: Looking smart vs. learning. Chapter 4. Is intelligence fixed or changeable? Stuedents' theories about their intelligence foster their achievement goals. Chapter 5. Theories of intelligence predict (and create) differences in achievement. Chapter 6. Theories of intelligence create high and low effort. Chapter 7. Theories and goals predict self-esteem loss and depressive reactions. Chapter 8. Why confidence and success are not enough. Chapter 9. What is IQ and does it matter? Chapter 10. Believing in fixed social traits: Impact on social coping. Chapter 11. Judging and labeling others: Another effect of implicit theories. Chapter 12. Belief in the potential to change. Chapter 13. Hoding and forming stereotypes. Chapter 14. How does it all begin? Young children's theories about goodness and badness. Chapter 15. Kinds of praise and criticism: The origins of vulnerability. Chapter 16. Praising intelligence: More praise that backfires. Chapter 17. Misconceptions about self-esteem and about how to foster it. Chapter 18. Personality, motivation, development, and the self: Theoretical reflections. Chapter 19. Final thoughts on controversial issues.