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Springer Personal Control In Action Cognitive And Motivational Mechanisms 1998 Edition by Miroslaw Kofta Gifford Weary Grzegorz Sedek
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- vation affective states and behavior. Since the sixties the notion of person-as-agent has become increas- ingly accepted in scientific psychology. Nowadays personal control is a standard topic in research on personality motivation and social behavior. The most popular approach identifies personal control with a feeling or judgment: To have control means to perceive the self as a source of causa- tion. Within this perspective such consciously accessible contents like perceived freedom and self-determination feelings and expectations of control or perceived self-efficacy and competence emerge as natural tar- gets of research (see e.g. Alloy Clements & Koenig 1993; Bandura 1977; OeCharms 1968; Oeci & Ryan 1985; Harvey 1976; Rotter 1966; Thomp- son 1993; Wortman 1975). Table of contents : The Person as an Agent of Control: Personal Control from the Perspective of Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory; S. Epstein. Dynamics in the Coordination of Mind and Action; R.R. Vallacher et al. Opening Versus Closing Strategies in Controlling One's Responses to Experience; M. Rosenbaum. A Terror Management Perspective on the Psychology of Control: Controlling the Uncontrollable; T. Pyszczynski et al. Affective and Cognitive Mechanisms of Executive Agency: The Emotional Control of Behavior; J.W. Brehm B.H. Brummett. Mood Management: The Role of Processing Strategies in Affect Control and Affect Infusion; J.P. Forgas et al. Ability Perception and Cardiovascular Response to Behavioral Challenge; R.A. Wright. Confirmation Bias: Cognitive Error or Adaptive Strategy of Action Control?; M. Lewicka. Threatened Personal Control: Mobilization versus Demobilization: To Control or Not to Control; D. Dolinski. Interpersonal Power Repair in Response to Threats to Control from Dependent Others; D.B. Bugental J.C. Lewis. Control Motivation Depression and Counterfactual Thought; K.D. Markman G. Weary. 6 Additional Chapters. Index.