Possible Selves: Theory, Research and Applications

Forsideomslag
Nova Publishers, 2006 - 236 sider
The concept of possible selves, first brought to life only a short time ago by Hazel Markus and Paula Nurious (1986) has grown into an exciting stream of research. Scholars have examined possible selves with regard to a host of adolescent outcomes, including academic achievement, school persistence, career expectations, self-esteem, delinquency, identity development and altruistic behaviours. Adults' possible selves have been associated with parenthood, physical and mental health, self-esteem, motivation, professional roles, coping and ageing. In addition, gender and ethnicity have been addressed in a number of possible selves studies. Educationally, what has been learned about possible selves offers a unique and viable approach to helping adolescents learn ways to identify and work toward attainable self-goals in the academic and career domains. "Possible Selves: Theory, Research and Application" represents a sample of the current research being conducted in the area of possible selves. The contributors to the book were chosen to represent a variety of perspectives, and to collectively illustrate some of the different ways that possible selves are being conceptualised, empirically examined and used in interventions.

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Temporal Comparisons Identity and Motivation The Relation Between Past Present and Possible Future Selves
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The Possible Selves of Diverse Adolescents Content and Function Across Gender Race and National Origin
17
Possible Selves in Adult Development Linking Theory and Research
41
Gender and Possible Selves
61
Possible Selves Fantasy Distortion and the Anticipated Life History Exploring the Role of the Imagination in Social Cognition
79
Identity Health Stress and Support Profiles of Transition to Motherhood Among High Risk Adolescent Girls
97
Possible Selves in the Lives of Adult Women A ShortTerm Longitudinal Study
123
Possible Selves as Joint Projects
141
Using Q Methodology to Study Possible Selves
163
Possible Selves as Mechanisms of Change in Therapy
187
Enhancing Student Motivation through the pursuit of possible selves
205
Index
223
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Side 80 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us: Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Side 2 - Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone ! ' In his agony, he caught the spectral hand.
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Side 95 - Berk, MS, & Andersen, SM (2000). The impact of past relationships on interpersonal behavior: Behavioral confirmation in the social-cognitive process of transference. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 546-562.
Side 218 - Deci, EL, Hodges, R., Pierson, L., & Tomassone, J. (1992). Autonomy and competence as motivational factors in students with learning disabilities and emotional handicaps. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25, 457-471.
Side 56 - Hooker, K. (1992). Possible selves and perceived health in older adults and college students. Journal of Gerontology, 47, 85-95.
Side xi - Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming, and thus provide a conceptual link between cognition and motivation
Side 54 - Social Identity and Social Comparison', in J. Suls and L. Wheeler (eds), Handbook of Social Comparison: Theory and Research. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, pp.
Side 75 - Ghaziuddin, N. (2000). Aggressive behavior in clinically depressed adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 611-618.

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