Self-Affirmation Theory
Individual differences in self-affirmation: Distinguishing self-affirmation from positive self-regard
... Dissonance Theory (e.g., Steele, 1975) one of the key insights of Self-Affirmation Theory is that, when coping with psychological threats, people are not restricted to dealing with the focal ...
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Self Affirmation through WeChat Moments
... of self-affirmation is that people may try to cope with self-threat by affirming the self-domain that is not related to threats (Steele, ...People’s self-presentation on social networks ...
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Effectiveness of self affirmation technique on depression among cancer patients in oncology ward at Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai
... however, self-affirmation is more directed towards one’s psychological response to the ...strategy. Self-affirmation theory posits that we are motivated to protect ourselves when ...
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Combining self affirmation with implementation intentions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption
... from Self-Affirmation Theory, which posits that (a) people resist information that threatens their sense of being rational, morally adequate, and in control of important outcomes, but (b) bolstering ...
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Evidence That Self-Affirmation Reduces Relational Aggression: A Proof of Concept Trial
... the self-affirmation intervention was able to reduce relational aggression from an already low level provides more confidence in its ...that self-affirmation effects can be sustained over ...
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The Role of Self-Affirmation in an Online Physical Activity Intervention.
... using self-affirmation to increase message acceptance. The self-affirmation theory (Steele, 1988) states that reflection of a person’s positive traits may reduce defensiveness about a ...
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Self Affirmation Buffers Claimed Self Handicapping? A Test of Contextual and Individual Moderators
... which self-handicapping is less likely to ...decrease self-handicapping is to regulate one’s self-esteem through alternative self-esteem maintenance ...of self-esteem regulation ...
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Unilateral Non-Colonial Secessions: An Affirmation of the Right to Self-Determination and a Legal Exception to the Use of Force in International Law
... of self-determination. Self- determination, thus the argument goes, has always been linked to historically pre-constituted political entities with a specific ...of self- determination raised by a ...
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On the Role of the Entrostat in the Theory of Self Organization
... The reasons for introducing the concept of the entrostat in statistical physics are examined. The introduction of the entrostat has allowed researchers to show the possibility of self-organization in open systems ...
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A defense of a deflationary theory of self deception
... the self-deceiver intentionally/knowingly tries to suppress a thought doesn’t imply that when the thought is forgotten, she knows that it is, or that she is intentionally/knowingly not thinking about it, any more ...
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Self-determination theory and work motivation
... encouraging self-initiation rather than pressuring subordinates to behave in specified ways, was associated with employees’ being more satisfied with their jobs, having a higher level of trust in corporate ...
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Dimension theory of random self similar and self affine constructions
... distinct, no matter which separation condition you assume. Recall that in the de- terministic setting the WSP is sufficient to guarantee equality, and in the random setting the Hausdorff and box-counting dimensions ...
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The effect of other- and self-affirmation on perceptions about the counterparty: Openness to experience and shared identity as possible mediators in a value conflict
... the Self Scale (IOS) (Aron, Aron, & Smollan, 1992) where the participant was instructed to choose one of six pictures that best described the current relationship with their counterparty (see Appendix ...
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Self-determination Theory as a Grand Theory of Motivation in EFL Classroom
... on self-regulation (Ryan, 1995; Ryan & Solky, 1996; Ryan, Nix, & Hamm, ...needs theory identifies the three psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness as the source of learners’ ...
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Rewarding my Self The role of Self Esteem and Self Determination in Motivation Crowding Theory
... (1890) self esteem is higher when there is coincidence between real self and ideal ...While self determination is always undermined by an external intervention, the self esteem mechanism can ...
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Philosophical Theory Construction and the Self Image of Philosophy
... a theory of perception ever since Seeing and Knowing (1969), which holds that we are overloaded with visual information in perception that by far exceeds our cognitive digestion, such findings present a central ...
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Self Consistent Field Theory of Ionization Collisions
... As in the Hartree-Fock case, the resulting system of mutually coupled SCF equations is solved by iteration, subject to the self consistency requirement. First one guesses a set of scattering wave functions. Then ...
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Lucian's self conscious fiction : theory in practice
... Gill 1993: 55 concedes that ’the status which is ascribed to the ’falsehood in words’ as regards muthologia, for instance, and to the noble lie, is, in our terms, ’fictional’, at least i[r] ...
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Rationalizing self-defeating behaviors: theory and evidence
... Researchers have long puzzled over why individuals in difficult situations fail to undertake action to improve their situation, or even engage in behavior that would seem to exacerbate the difficulties they already face. ...
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Self-reported motivation for choosing nursing studies: a self-determination theory perspective
... These motivations, due to their frequent occurrence, are often generic and their use can make it difficult to clearly understand the actual motivational process behind the student’s declaration. So, a similar term may ...
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