Regulatory Focus in a Demanding World

Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 291-314

  Scholer, Abigail A ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectancies, needs, beliefs, and knowledge structures perception of objects, events and individuals; Prevention focused and promotion focused individuals and life's high demand situations; Prevention focused individuals better performance after failure feedback; Regulatory focus in a demanding world; Regulatory focus theory promotion orientation and prevention orientation; Self control conflicts tension between immediate, short term gain and distant, long term gain; Self regulation regulation in social context and intergroup interactions; Self systems theory (SST) treating depression; Underlying motivational system influencing "ways of seeing" and "ways of coping"; Understanding self regulatory processes grasping nature of personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857504565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318111.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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