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Personal Control in Action - Cognitive and Motivational Mechanisms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)
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Personal Control in Action - Cognitive and Motivational Mechanisms (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)
Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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Human beings are agents: They may exert influence over their own
fate. They initiate their actions, experience a considerable degree
of freedom and control in their mundane activities, and respond
adversely to external constraints to their agency; they are able to
monitor and modify their moti- vation, affective states, and
behavior. Since the sixties, the notion of person-as-agent has
become increas- ingly accepted in scientific psychology. Nowadays,
personal control is a standard topic in research on personality,
motivation, and social behavior. The most popular approach
identifies personal control with a feeling or judgment: To have
control means to perceive the self as a source of causa- tion.
Within this perspective, such consciously accessible contents like
perceived freedom and self-determination, feelings and expectations
of control, or perceived self-efficacy and competence emerge as
natural tar- gets of research (see e.g., Alloy, Clements, &
Koenig, 1993; Bandura, 1977; OeCharms, 1968; Oeci & Ryan, 1985;
Harvey, 1976; Rotter, 1966; Thomp- son, 1993; Wortman, 1975).
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