| Record Number |
19359 |
| ISBN |
0863775705 |
| 1841690244 |
| 9781841690247 |
| Item Number |
9781841690247 |
| Location |
155.2 DWE |
| Author |
Dweck, Carol S., 1946- (author.). |
| Title |
Self-theories : their role in motivation, personality, and development / Carol S. Dweck. |
| Published |
Philadelphia : Psychology Press, c1999. |
| Philadelphia : Psychology Press, c1999. |
| Collation |
xiii, 195 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Essays in social psychology |
| General Note |
PSD - Professor Stephen Dinham Collection |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-173) and index. |
| Contents Note |
Contents: Ch. 1. What Promotes Adaptive Motivation? Four Beliefs and Four Truths About Ability, Success, Praise, and Confidence -- Ch. 2. When Failure Undermines and When Failure Motivates: Helpless and Mastery-Oriented Responses -- Ch. 3. Achievement Goals: Looking Smart Versus Learning -- Ch. 4. Is Intelligence Fixed or Changeable? Students' Theories About Their Intelligence Foster Their Achievement Goals -- Ch. 5. Theories of Intelligence Predict (and Create) Differences in Achievement -- Ch. 6. Theories of Intelligence Create High and Low Effort -- Ch. 7. Implicit Theories and Goals Predict Self-Esteem Loss and Depressive Reactions to Negative Events -- Ch. 8. Why Confidence and Success Are Not Enough -- Ch. 9. What is IQ and Does It Matter? -- Ch. 10. Believing in Fixed Social Traits: Impact on Social Coping -- Ch. 11. Judging and Labeling Others: Another Effect of Implicit Theories -- Ch. 12. Belief in the Potential to Change -- Ch. 13. Holding and Forming Stereotypes. |
| Ch. 14. How Does It All Begin? Young Children's Theories About Goodness and Badness -- Ch. 15. Kinds of Praise and Criticism: The Origins of Vulnerability -- Ch. 16. Praising Intelligence: More Praise that Backfires -- Ch. 17. Misconceptions About Self-Esteem and About How to Foster It -- Ch. 18. Personality, Motivation, Development, and the Self: Theoretical Reflections -- Ch. 19. Final Thoughts on Controversial Issues -- App. Measures of Implicit Theories, Confidence, and Goals. |
| Summary Note |
"This 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; and the experiences that create them." "Throughout, Dweck shows how examining self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development. This 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Intellect |
| Self-esteem |
| Self psychology |
| Achievement motivation |
| Intelligence |
| Motivation |
| Self Concept |
| Self psychology |
| Achievement motivation |
| Intellect |
| Self-esteem |
| Self psychology |
| Self psychology |
| Achievement motivation |
| Intellect |
| Self-esteem |
