Self-Regulation Processes and Their Signatures: Dynamics of the Self-System

Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-144

  Morf, Carolyn C ^a   Horvath, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appetitive approach system and approach related behaviors; Aversive inhibition system attention toward potential negative outcomes; Circumventing threat and conscious information processing entry; Dynamic self regulatory processing approach to personality; Expectancies and value regarding goal attainment interacting with each other; People high on "rejection sensitivity" (RS) avoiding implications of rejection and abandonment; Personality and self regulation individual differences moderating self regulation process; Regulating self signatures in personality; Role of broad self regulatory skills; Self regulation processes and their signatures dynamics of self system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886965337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318111.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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