| Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development Contributor(s): Dweck, Carol S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1841690244 ISBN-13: 9781841690247 Publisher: Psychology Press OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 Annotation: This book sheds light on how people work-why sometimes they function well and sometimes they behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Toward this end, Carol Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns, showing: 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; the experiences that create them. br br Throughout, Dweck shows how examining people's self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development. br |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Medical | Mental Health - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 155.2 |
| LCCN: 98-51560 |
| Lexile Measure: 1240 |
| Series: Essays in Social Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (0.66 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This innovative 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. The author 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 * The experiences that create them
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