Personal Control in Action
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This new study presents exciting international research developments on personal control and self-regulation. Each chapter examines the subject at a different level of analysis to foster a complete understanding. Brief synopses of each chapter are provided as introductions to the three major sections of the book. These sections cover the person as an agent of control, affective and cognitive mechanisms of executive agency, and reactions to threatened control. Booknews Presents new developments in research on personal control and self- regulation, examining momentary and life-span control phenomena at the level of the individual and at the level of personal relationships. Part I deals with the person as a source of control, and focuses on higher-order structures of control. Part II addresses mechanisms of executive agency from various theoretical perspectives. Part III explores the theme of human responses to situations involving actual or perceived threats to personal control. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
IThe Person as an Agent of ControlCh. 1Personal Control from the Perspective of Cognitive-Experiential Self-TheoryCh. 2Dynamics in the Coordination of Mind and ActionCh. 3Opening versus Closing Strategies in Controlling One's Responses to ExperienceCh. 4A Terror Management Perspective on the Psychology of Control: Controlling the UncontrollableCh. 5Personal Goals and Personal Agency: Linking Everyday Goals to Future Images of the SelfIIAffective and Cognitive Mechanisms of Executive AgencyCh. 6The Emotional Control of BehaviorCh. 7Mood Management: The Role of Processing Strategies in Affect Control and Affect InfusionCh. 8Ability Perception and Cardiovascular Response to Behavioral ChallengeCh. 9Confirmation Bias: Cognitive Error or Adaptive Strategy of Action Control?Ch. 10Intrusive Thoughts, Rumination, and Incomplete IntentionsCh. 11Decision Making and Action: The Search for a Dominance StructureCh. 12Improving Efficiency of Action Control through Technical and Social ResourcesIIIThreatened Personal Control: Mobilization Versus DemobilizationCh. 13To Control or Not to ControlCh. 14Interpersonal Power Repair in Response to Threats to Control from Dependent OthersCh. 15Control Motivation, Depression, and Counterfactual ThoughtCh. 16Uncotrollability as a Source of Cognitive Exhaustion: Implications for Helplessness and DepressionCh. 17Intellectual Helplessness: Domain Specificity, Teaching Styles, and School AchievementIndex
