In search of self-definition: Motivational primacy of the individual self, motivational primacy of the collective self, or contextual primacy?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-18

  Gaertner, Lowell ^a,b   Sedikides, Constantine ^a,b   Graetz, Kenneth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROL; DEPRESSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT;

ADULT; ANGER; DEPRESSION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS;

EID: 0032618847     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.76.1.5     Document Type: Article

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