Handbook of Psychology, Volume 5, Personality and Social Psychology

Implications of Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory for Psychotherapy and Research 179 whispered, ‘They want my children so they ...

180 Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality in order to maintain relationships, she had no way of learning before ther ...

Summary and Conclusions 181 whether the degree to which they coincide in individuals is an important personality variable, as as ...

182 Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality interactive. The two systems usually operate in synchrony and produce comp ...

References 183 Epstein, S. (1987). Implications of cognitive self-theory for psy- chopathology and psychotherapy. In N. Cheshire ...

184 Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory of Personality Murray, H. A. (1943). Thematic Apperception Test manual. Cambridge, MA: Ha ...

CHAPTER 8 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality CHARLES S. CARVER AND MICHAEL F. SCHEIER 185 BEHAVIOR AS GOAL DIRECTED AND ...

186 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality What processes account for the existence of feelings as people make their way th ...

Behavior as Goal Directed and Feedback Controlled 187 Figure 8.2 The effects of discrepancy-enlarging feedback systems are often ...

188 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality attention (Carver, 1979; Carver & Scheier, 1981). Indeed, the similarity bet ...

Hierarchicality Among Goals 189 Figure 8.3 A hierarchy of goals (or of feedback loops). Lines indicate the contribution of lower ...

190 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality that person’s actions. Values are the source of intentions to take certain patte ...

Feedback Loops and Creation of Affect 191 This input does not in itself create affect because a given rate of progress has diffe ...

192 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality Affect from Discrepancy-Enlarging Loops Thus far we have restricted ourselves to ...

Feedback Loops and Creation of Affect 193 always involved. Thus, this view incorporates clear links be- tween behavior and affec ...

194 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality This issue clearly represents an important difference among theoretical viewpoin ...

Scaling Back Aspirations and Recalibration of the Affect System 195 People sometimes must be willing to give up even values that ...

196 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality Consider first upward adjustments. As an example, a per- son who gains work-rela ...

Conflict and Restraint 197 Figure 8.6 Conflict arises when two desired goals are incompatible for some reason. For example, by w ...

198 Self-Regulatory Perspectives on Personality attempts to control their thoughts. The data consistently indi- cate that an ins ...