Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development,9781841690247

Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781841690247
ISBN10: 1841690244
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Psychology Pres
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Summary

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. Throughout, Dweck shows how examining people's self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development.

Table of Contents

About the Author vii
Preface ix
Introduction xi
What Promotes Adaptive Motivation? Four Beliefs and Four Truths About Ability, Success, Praise, and Confidence
1(4)
When Failure Undermines and When Failure Motivates: Helpless and Mastery-Oriented Responses
5(10)
Achievement Goals: Looking Smart Versus Learning
15(5)
Is Intelligence Fixed or Changeable? Students' Theories About Their Intelligence Foster Their Achievement Goals
20(9)
Theories of Intelligence Predict (and Create) Differences in Achievement
29(10)
Theories of Intelligence Create High and Low Effort
39(5)
Implicit Theories and Goals Predict Self-Esteem Loss and Depressive Reactions to Negative Events
44(7)
Why Confidence and Success Are Not Enough
51(8)
What is IQ and Does It Matter?
59(5)
Believing in Fixed Social Traits: Impact on Social Coping
64(9)
Judging and Labeling Others: Another Effect of Implicit Theories
73(9)
Belief in the Potential to Change
82(7)
Holding and Forming Stereotypes
89(6)
How Does It All Begin? Young Children's Theories About Goodness and Badness
95(12)
Kinds of Praise and Criticism: The Origins of Vulnerability
107(9)
Praising Intelligence: More Praise that Backfires
116(11)
Misconceptions About Self-Esteem and About How to Foster It
127(5)
Personality, Motivation, Development, and the Self: Theoretical Reflections
132(17)
Final Thoughts on Controversial Issues
149(8)
References 157(18)
Appendix: Measures of Implicit Theories, Confidence, and Goals 175(12)
Index 187

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