Confidence about Life Effects of Generalized Optimism

Confidence about Life Effects of Generalized Optimism

Disengagement 209

 

Box 13.2 Confidence about Life: Effects of Generalized Optimism 210

 

13.2.10: Partial Disengagement 211

 

13.3: Further Themes in Self-Regulation 211 13.3.1: Approach and Avoidance 211 13.3.2: Intention-Based and Stimulus-Based

 

Action 211 13.3.3: Self-Regulation as Self-Control 213

 

13.4: Assessment from the Self-Regulation Perspective 213 13.4.1: Assessment of Self-Regulatory Qualities 213

 

Box 13.3 Reduction of Self-Regulation: Deindividuation and Alcohol 214

 

13.4.2: Assessment of Goals 214

 

13.5: Problems in Behavior, and Behavior Change, from the Self-Regulation Perspective 214

 

13.5.1: Problems as Conflicts among Goals and Lack of Strategy Specifications 214

 

13.5.2: Problems from an Inability to Disengage 215

 

13.5.3: Self-Regulation and the Process of Therapy 215

 

13.5.4: Therapy Is Training in Problem Solving 216

 

13.6: Problems and Prospects for the Self-Regulation Perspective 216 Summary: The Self-Regulation Perspective 217

 

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14.2.1: Impulse and Restraint 225 14.2.2: Individual versus Group Needs 226

 

14.3: Combining Perspectives 226 14.3.1: Eclecticism 227 14.3.2: Biology and Learning as Complementary

 

Influences on Personality 227

 

14.4: Which Theory Is Best? 228 Summary: Overlap and Integration among Perspectives 228

 

Glossary 230

 

References 237

 

Credits 282

 

Name Index 284

 

Subject Index 297

 

14: Overlap and Integration among Perspectives 219

 

14.1: Similarities among Perspectives 220 14.1.1: Psychoanalysis and Evolutionary

 

Psychology 220 14.1.2: Psychoanalysis and Self-Regulation 221 14.1.3: Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Processes 221 14.1.4: Social Learning, Cognitive, and

 

Self-Regulation Views 223 14.1.5: Maslow’s Hierarchy and Hierarchies

 

of Self-Regulation 224 14.1.6: Self-Actualization and Self-Regulation 224 14.1.7: Traits and Their Equivalents in

 

Other Models 225

 

14.2: Recurrent Themes, Viewed from Different Angles 225

 

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secondary goal is to consider the usefulness of blending theoretical viewpoints, treating theories as complemen- tary, rather than competing.

 

In revising, we’ve tried very hard to make the content accessible. We use an informal, conversational style, and we’ve used examples of how the ideas can apply to one’s own life. We hope these qualities make the book engaging and enjoyable, as well as informative.

 

New to This Edition • Incorporates important developments in the field of

 

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New material has been added on the biological under- pinnings of impulsiveness (Chapter 7) expanding on the previous edition’s coverage.

 

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