Mindsets, control, and the self

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Motivation & Emotion
Dr James Neill
Centre for Applied Psychology
University of Canberra
2016
Mindsets, control,
and the self
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1. Mindsets (Ch 9)
2. Personal control beliefs (Ch 10)
3. The self and its strivings (Ch 11)
Overview

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Mindsets
Reading:
Reeve (2015)
Ch 9
(pp. 239-267)
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Outline
Based on Reeve (2015, Ch 9, p. 239)
 Mindsets
 Mindset 1:
Deliberative-
Implemental
 Deliberative mindset
 Implemental mindset
 Downstream consequences
 Mindset 2:
Promotion-Prevention
 Promotion Mindset
 Prevention Mindset
 Definitions of success and failure
 Goal-striving strategies
 Ideal and ought self-guides
 Regulatory fit
 Mindsets
 Mindset 1:
Deliberative-
Implemental
 Deliberative mindset
 Implemental mindset
 Downstream consequences
 Mindset 2:
 Promotion Mindset
 Prevention Mindset
 Definitions of success and failure
 Goal-striving strategies
 Ideal and ought self-guides
 Regulatory fit
 Mindset 3:
Growth-Fixed
 Fixed Mindset
 Growth Mindset
 Meaning of effort
 Origins of fixed-growth motivation
 Achievement goals
 Mindset 4:
Cognitive dissonance
 Dissonance-arousing situations
 Choice
 Insufficient justification
 Effort justification
 New information
 Motivational processes
 Self-perception theory
 Mindset 3:
Growth-Fixed
 Fixed Mindset
 Growth Mindset
 Meaning of effort
 Origins of fixed-growth motivation
 Achievement goals
 Mindset 4:
Cognitive dissonance
 Dissonance-arousing situations
 Choice
 Insufficient justification
 Effort justification
 New information
 Motivational processes
 Self-perception theory

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 Mindsets are cognitive frameworks
that guide our attention, info
processing, decision making, and
thinking about effort, success,
failure, and self
 Mindsets have downstream effects
on thinking, feeling, and behaving
 Mindsets differ between people
 Mindsets are cognitive frameworks
that guide our attention, info
processing, decision making, and
thinking about effort, success,
failure, and self
 Mindsets have downstream effects
on thinking, feeling, and behaving
 Mindsets differ between people
Mindsets
Based on Reeve (2015, p. 240)

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Deliberative vs. Implemental
Promotion vs. Prevention
Growth vs. Fixed
Consistency vs. Dissonance
Deliberative vs. Implemental
Promotion vs. Prevention
Growth vs. Fixed
Consistency vs. Dissonance
Four mindsets

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Mindset 1:
Deliberative-Implemental
Implemental: Closed-minded thinking that
considers only information related to goal
attainment and shields against non-goal-related
considerations.
Deliberative: Open-minded thinking about the
desirability and feasibility of a range of possible
goals that one might or might not pursue.
Two patterns of thought that emphasise deliberative goal-setting
versus implementational action to achieve a chosen goal.
Based on Reeve (2015, Table 9.1, p. 241)

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Mindset 1:
Deliberative-Implemental
Phase 2: Goal striving
Implemental mindset
Planning and action to
attain the goal.
Phase 1: Goal setting
Deliberative mindset
Goal deliberation and
formulation of what to
do.
Two different mindsets to motivationally support the sequential
phases of goal setting and goal striving.
Based on Reeve (2015, Figure 9.1, p. 242)

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Mindset 2:
Prevention: Focus on preventing the self from
not maintaining its duties and responsibilities.
Adopts a vigilant behavioural strategy.
Promotion: Focus on advancing the self toward
ideals by adopting an eager locomotion
behavioral strategy.
Two different goal striving orientations which motivate
improvement and the possibility gain or maintanence and
prevention of possible loss.

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Mindset 2:
Antecedents
Based on Reeve (2015, Figure 9.2a, p. 245)
Attention to
improvement
needs
Goals are seen as
ideals,
hopes,
aspirations
Situations
signaling
possible gain
Sensitivity to
positive
outcomes
Motivational orientation
is to attain gains
Behavioural
strategy is
fast, eager,
locomotion
Promotion
Focus
Emotionality:
Cheerfulness vs
dejection
Consequences

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Mindset 2:
Based on Reeve (2015, Figure 9.2b, p. 245)
Attention to
security
needs
Goals are seen as
oughts,
obligations,
responsibilities
Situations
signaling
possible loss
Sensitivity to
negative
outcomes
Motivational orientation
is to prevent losses
Behavioural
strategy is
cautious, vigilant,
assessment
Prevention
Focus
Emotionality:
Calm vs
agitation
Antecedents Consequences

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Mindset 2:
Prevention:
●
Success means the absence of loss.
●
Person strives to maintain a satisfactory state.
●
Success means that no change has occurred.
●
Failure means a loss and a painful change has occurred.
Promotion:
• Success means the presence of gain.
• Person strives to attain a positive outcome.
• Positive outcome takes the form of advancement or
improved state of affairs. Failure has no special meaning.
Different definitions of success and failure.
Based on Reeve (2015, pp. 246-247)

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Mindset 2:
Prevention:
●
Safety-based strategy can be characterised as being
cautious, staying committed, staying the course,
protecting one’s commitments, playing it safe, assessing
where one stands and being vigilant.
Promotion:
• Gain-based strategy can be characterised as open-
mindedness, exploration, locomotion, acting fast, and eager
approach.
Different goal-striving strategies.

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Mindset 3:
Growth-Fixed
Fixed: The belief that one’s personal qualities
are fixed, set, and not open to change.
Growth: The belief that one’s personal qualities
are malleable, changeable, and can be
developed through effort.
Two contrasting ways of thinking about the nature of one’s
personal qualities.

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Mindset 3:
Growth-Fixed
Fixed:
●
High effort means low ability, evidence that the performer
lacks ability.
●
“The more you try, the dumber you therefore must be.”
Growth:
• Effort is a tool, the means by which people turn on and
vitalise the development of their skills and abilities.
Meaning of effort.

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Mindset 3:
Growth-Fixed
Fixed:
●
People adopt performance goals and are concerned with
looking smart and not looking dumb.
●
Concerned about good performance when others are
watching.
Growth:
• People adopt mastery goals and are concerned with
learning something new and improving as much as they
can.
Mindsets lead to different achievement goals.

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Achievement goals
Main
achievement
goals
Mastery
goals
- Develop one’s competence
- Make progress
- Improve the self
- Overcome difficulties with
effort and persistence
Performance
goals
- Prove one’s competence
- Display high ability
- Outperform others
- Succeed with little apparent
effort

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Benefits of adopting mastery goals
Preference for a
challenging task
one can learn from
Adoption of a
mastery goal
Work
harder
Persist
longer
Perform
better
Use conceptually
based learning
strategies
Experience greater
intrinsic than
extrinsic motivation
More likely to ask
for information &
help
(rather than a
performance goal)
Based on Reeve (2009, Figure 7.2, ,p. 185)

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Integrating classical &
contemporary approaches to
achievement motivation
Classical
approach
Atkinson’s theory
Contemporary
approach
Achievement goals
Integrated
model

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Achievement goals in the
classroom (Ames & Archer, 1988)
Manifestations of mastery and performance goals
in the classroom context

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Antecedents & consequences of
the three achievement goals
(Elliot & Church, 1997)
Mastery
goal
Achievement
motivation
Performance-
approach goal
Performance-
avoidance goal
Competence
expectancy
Fear of
failure
Intrinsic
motivation
Graded
performance
.22
.26
-.34
.21
-.14
.41
.45
.31
.36
-.26
-.34
Based on Reeve
(2015, Figure 9.5, p. 258)

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Avoidance motivation & ill-being
Fear
of
failure
Perform-
ance-
avoidanc
e
goals
LOW
• Self-esteem
• Personal control
• Vitality
• Life satisfaction
• Psychological
well-being

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Mindsets 4:
Consistency-Dissonance
Dissonance: Information and behavioral actions
that suggest that, no, one is actually not a
competent, moral and reasonable person.
Consistency: Information and behavioral actions
that confirm that, yes, one is a competent, moral
and reasonable person.
The near-universal self-view that one is a competent, moral, and
reasonable person.

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 Dissonant belief
Reduce importance
Remove
 Consonant belief
Increase importance
Add a new consonant belief
 Dissonant belief
Reduce importance
Remove
 Consonant belief
Increase importance
Add a new consonant belief
Dissonance reduction strategies.
Mindsets 4:

25Based on Reeve (2015, pp. 131-133)
Choice
Insufficient
justification
Effort justification
New information
A difficult choice may create dissonance.
Used to explain actions taken with little or
no external prompting.
Extreme behaviours breed extreme beliefs.
“If I did that, I must really love this place!”
As you collect new information,
you expose yourself to opportunities
to contradict your beliefs.
Mindsets 4:
Dissonance-arousing situations.

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Mindsets 4:
Cognitive dissonance process.
Dissonance reduced or eliminated
Dissonance-reduction strategy implemented
Dissonance motivation
Produces inconsistency between cognitions
Dissonance-arousing situational events

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Personal
control
beliefs
Reading:
Reeve (2015)
Ch 10
(pp. 269-302)

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Outline
Based on Reeve (2015, Ch 9, pp. 229-230)
 Motivation to exercise
personal control
 Two kinds of expectancy
 Efficacy
 Outcome
 Perceived control
 Self
 Action
 Control
 Self-efficacy
 Sources of self-efficacy
 Self-efficacy effects on behaviour
 Self-efficacy or the psychological
need for competence?
 Empowerment
 Empowering people:
Mastery modeling program
 Motivation to exercise
personal control
 Two kinds of expectancy
 Efficacy
 Outcome
 Perceived control
 Self
 Action
 Control
 Self-efficacy
 Sources of self-efficacy
 Self-efficacy effects on behaviour
 Self-efficacy or the psychological
need for competence?
 Empowerment
 Empowering people:
 Mastery beliefs
 Ways of coping
 Mastery versus helplessness
 Learned helplessness
 Learning helplessness
 Applications to humans
 Components
 Helplessness effects
 Reactance theory
 Reactance and helplessness
 Hope
 Expectancy-value
model
 Mastery beliefs
 Ways of coping
 Mastery versus helplessness
 Learned helplessness
 Learning helplessness
 Applications to humans
 Components
 Helplessness effects
 Reactance theory
 Reactance and helplessness
 Hope
 Expectancy-value
model

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Questions about expectancy and control
 What are your
expectations for your future?
 Will you get the next job you apply for?
 On a blind date, would the other person like you?
 Can you run 3 kms without stopping?
 Do you perceive that you are
in control of the events that happen to you?
 Or is what happens to you controlled by luck, fate,
or others?
 How do your expectations and perceptions
of control affect your:
 motivation?
 performance?
 What are your
expectations for your future?
 Will you get the next job you apply for?
 On a blind date, would the other person like you?
 Can you run 3 kms without stopping?
 Do you perceive that you are
in control of the events that happen to you?
 Or is what happens to you controlled by luck, fate,
or others?
 How do your expectations and perceptions
of control affect your:
 motivation?
 performance? Based on Reeve (2015, p. 269)

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Motivation to exercise personal control:
Initial assumptions and understandings
 People desire control over their
environment so as to be able to make:
 positive outcomes ↑ likely
 negative outcomes ↓ likely
 Exercising personal control is predicated
upon a person's belief that s/he has the
power to influence results favourably.
 The strength with which people try to
exercise personal control can be traced to
their expectancies of being able to do so.
 People desire control over their
environment so as to be able to make:
 positive outcomes ↑ likely
 negative outcomes ↓ likely
 Exercising personal control is predicated
upon a person's belief that s/he has the
power to influence results favourably.
 The strength with which people try to
exercise personal control can be traced to
their expectancies of being able to do so.

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Two kinds of expectancies
Expectancy: A subjective prediction of
how likely it is that an event will occur.
Expectancy: A subjective prediction of
how likely it is that an event will occur.
Efficacy expectations
“Can I do it?”
Expectation of being able to enact
behaviours needed to cope
effectively with the situation at hand.
e.g.,
Can I do 20 mins on a treadmill,
3 times a week for 12 months?
Outcome expectations
“Will what I do work?”
Expectation that one's behaviour will
produce positive outcomes (or
prevent negative outcomes).
e.g.,
Would I lose 5 kgs as a result?
Motivation to exercise personal control

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Two kinds of expectancies:
Efficacy and outcome
Person OutcomeBehaviour
Efficacy
expectations
“Can I do it?”
e.g.,
Can I control my fright and
ask him to dance?
Outcome
expectations
“Will it work?”
e.g.,
Will he say yes and will we
have fun?

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Self → Action → Control
model of perceived control
Self
(Agent)
Efficacy
expectations
e.g.,
Can I use effective
coping strategies
during difficult
discussions?
Action
(Means) Control
(Ends)
Perceived control
e.g., can I improve my marriage?
(Alternative terminology for the Personal-Behaviour-Outcome model)(Alternative terminology for the Personal-Behaviour-Outcome model)
Outcome
expectations
e.g.,
Will using these
coping strategies
improve my
marriage?

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Self-efficacy
One’s judgement of how well one will cope with
a situation (given the skills one possesses and
the circumstances one faces).
Capacity to improvise ways to translate
personal abilities into effective performance.
The opposite of self-efficacy is self-doubt.
Self-efficacy predicts the motivational balance
between wanting to give it a try vs. anxiety,
doubt and avoidance.

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Sources and effects of self-efficacy
Extent of
self-efficacy
Personal
behaviour
history
Vicarious
experience
(Modeling)
Verbal
persuasion
(Pep talk)
Physiological
activity
Choice
(Approach vs.
avoid)
Effort and
persistence
Thinking and
decision
making
Emotional
reactions
(Stress, anxiety)
Sources of
self-efficacy
Effects of
self-efficacy
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Empowerment
Empowerment
Knowledge
Self-efficacy
beliefs
Skills
Empowerment involves possessing the knowledge,
skills, and beliefs that allow people to exert control
over their lives.

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Empowering people:
Based on Reeve (2015, pp. 281-282) which is based on Ozer and Bandura (1990)
1. Expert identifies component skills involved in effective coping and
measures novices' efficacy expectation on each component skill
2. Expert models each component skills. Expert provides corrective feedback,
as needed.
3. Novices emulate each modeled skill. Expert provides corrective feedback,
as needed.
4. Novices integrate the separate component skills into an overall
simulated performance. Expert introduces only mild obstacles and helps
novices integrate the different skill components into an overall performance.
5. Novices participate in cooperative learning groups. One person gives a
simulated performance while peers watch. As they watch, peers provide
encouragement and tips. Each person takes a turn until everyone has
performed multiple times.
6. Novices perform individually in a near-naturalistic situation that features
numerous and reaslistic difficulties, obstacles, and setbacks while the expert
provides modeling and corrective feedback.
7. Expert models confident demeanour and arousal-regulating strategies.
1. Expert identifies component skills involved in effective coping and
measures novices' efficacy expectation on each component skill
2. Expert models each component skills. Expert provides corrective feedback,
as needed.
3. Novices emulate each modeled skill. Expert provides corrective feedback,
as needed.
4. Novices integrate the separate component skills into an overall
simulated performance. Expert introduces only mild obstacles and helps
novices integrate the different skill components into an overall performance.
5. Novices participate in cooperative learning groups. One person gives a
simulated performance while peers watch. As they watch, peers provide
encouragement and tips. Each person takes a turn until everyone has
performed multiple times.
6. Novices perform individually in a near-naturalistic situation that features
numerous and reaslistic difficulties, obstacles, and setbacks while the expert
provides modeling and corrective feedback.
7. Expert models confident demeanour and arousal-regulating strategies.

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Mastery beliefs
Perceived control over
attaining desirable
outcomes and preventing
aversive ones
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Responds to failure by
remaining task- and
mastery-focused

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Stress and coping
 Stress occurs when the demands of
a situation exceed our resources.
 Coping refers to choiceful attempts
to deal with stress.
 Stress occurs when the demands of
a situation exceed our resources.
 Coping refers to choiceful attempts
to deal with stress.

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Ways of coping
Based on Reeve (2015, Table 10.1, p. 283) which is based on Skinner et al. (2003)
Way of coping Illustration
Approach vs.
avoidance
Taking action by moving toward and interacting with
the problem vs. walking away from the problem
Social vs. solitary Taking action with a team of others vs. acting alone
Proactive vs. reactive Taking action to prevent a problem before vs. after it
occurs
Direct vs. indirect Taking action with a team of others vs. acting alone
Control vs. escape Take-charge approach vs. staying clear of the
situation
Alloplastic vs.
autoplastic
Taking action to change the problem vs. taking
action to change one's self
Problem focused vs.
emotion focused
Taking action to manage the problem causing the
stress vs. regulating one's emotional response to
the problem

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How to make stress your friend
Kelly McGonigal, 2013
TED Talk (15 mins) Start at 1:00; End at 13:21
http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend.html
TED Talk (15 mins) Start at 1:00; End at 13:21
http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend.html

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Mastery versus helplessness
Based on Reeve (2015, p. 282-284)
Mastery
motivational
orientation
• A hardy, resistant
portrayal of the self
during encounters of
failure
• Failure feedback can
be helpful and
constructive
information.
Helpless
motivational
orientation
• A fragile view of the
self during
encounters of failure
• Failure feedback is a
sign of personal
inadequacy.

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Don't eat the marshmallow!
Joachim de Posada, 2009
TED Talk (6 mins)
http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet
TED Talk (6 mins)
http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet

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Learned helplessness
The psychological state that results
when an individual expects that life’s
outcomes are uncontrollable.
The psychological state that results
when an individual expects that life’s
outcomes are uncontrollable.
My behaviour
Outcomes that
happen to ne
Other
(uncontrollable)
influences

Based on Reeve
(2009, p. 246)
Seligman and Maier experiment
How helplessness
is learnt.

46Based on Reeve (2015, Table 10.2, p. 286) which is based on Seligman & Meier (1967)
Results of a prototypical learned helplessness studyResults of a prototypical learned helplessness study

Learned helplessness study
with humans
Authentic
feedback
(Controllable problem)
Random and
bogus feedback
(Uncontrollable problem)
vs.

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Components of
learned helplessness
Contingency Cognition Behaviour
Objective
relationship
between a
person’s
behaviour and
the environment’s
outcomes
(range: 0 to 1)
•Subjective
personal control
beliefs
•Biases
•Attributions
•Expectancies
Listless,
demoralised
coping behaviour
vs. assertive,
active, energetic
coping

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Effects of helplessness
Decreased
willingness to
try
“Why try?“
Acquired
pessimistic set
that interferes
with one’s ability
to learn new
response-
outcome
contingencies
Energy-
depleting
emotions
(e.g.,
Listlessness,
apathy,
depression)
Motivational
deficits
Learning
deficits
Emotional
deficits

Helplessness and depression
Based on Reeve (2015, Figure 10.6, pp. 292)
Perceived control judgments for
depressed and non-depressed individuals
Depressed
individuals had
the most accurate
perceptions in the
no-control
condition.
Non-depressed
individuals
perceived they had
greater control
than they did.

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Explanatory style:
Relatively stable, cognitively-based personality orientation
Optimistic
explanatory
style
• Explains bad events with
attributions that are
unstable and controllable
• Related to the self-serving
bias of an illusion of control
which contributes to
enhancing self-esteem and
promoting an optimistic
view of the future
Pessimistic
explanatory
style
• Explains bad events with
attributions that are stable
and uncontrollable
• Associated with academic
failure, social distress,
impaired job performance,
physical illness, and
depression
Attributions vary in their locus, stability and controllability

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Criticisms & alternative explanations
•
• Traumatic events themselves could induce
helplessness.
• The expectation of failure induces helplessness.
• Uncontrollable events induce helplessness deficits
not because they are uncontrollable but
because they are unpredictable.
Criticisms
•
• People actually motivated to remain passive.
• Helplessness might fundamentally be a
physiological, rather than a cognitive,
phenomenon.
Alternative explanations

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Reactance theory
Reactance
The psychological and
behavioural attempt at
reestablishing (“reacting”
against) an eliminated or
threatened freedom.

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Putting it all together: Hope
Self-efficacy Mastery
motivation
High
self-efficacy
Performer’s perceived
capacity to accomplish
the goals
“I can do this.”
Clear
pathways to
goal
attainment
Performer’s belief that
s/he can generate
multiple viable routes
to desired goals
“I will find a way to
get this done.”

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Why do high-hope people
outperform low-hope counterparts?
 Set specific, short-term goals
 Set mastery (learning) goals
 Rely on internal self-set goals
 Engage with intrinsic motivation
 Flexible problem-solving approach
 Determination reservoir
 Perceive meaning in life
 Set specific, short-term goals
 Set mastery (learning) goals
 Rely on internal self-set goals
 Engage with intrinsic motivation
 Flexible problem-solving approach
 Determination reservoir
 Perceive meaning in life
Based on Reeve (2015, p. 298-299)

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The self &
its strivings
Reading:
Reeve (2015)
Ch 11
(pp. 303-334)

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Outline –
The self and its strivings
 The self
 Aspects
 Dimensions
 The problem with self-esteem
 Self-concept
 Self-schemas
 Motivational properties of
self-schemas
 Consistent self
 Self-verification and
self-concept change
 Why people self-verify
 Possible selves
 The self
 Aspects
 Dimensions
 The problem with self-esteem
 Self-concept
 Self-schemas
 Motivational properties of
self-schemas
 Consistent self
 Self-verification and
self-concept change
 Why people self-verify
 Possible selves
 Agency
 Self as action and development
from within
 Self-regulation
 Self-regulation
 Developing more competent
self-regulation
 Self-control
 Identity
 Roles
 Identify-establishing behaviours
 Identity-confirming behaviours
 Identity-restoring behaviours
 What is the self?
 Agency
 Self as action and development
from within
 Self-regulation
 Self-regulation
 Developing more competent
self-regulation
 Self-control
 Identity
 Roles
 Identify-establishing behaviours
 Identity-confirming behaviours
 Identity-restoring behaviours
 What is the self?

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Aspects of the self
Defining or
creating
the self
Relating
the self
to society
Discovering
& developing
personal
potential
Managing or
regulating
the self

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Dimensions of
psychological well-being
1. Self-acceptance
2. Positive relations with others
3. Autonomy
4. Environmental mastery
5. Purpose in life
6. Personal growth
1. Self-acceptance
2. Positive relations with others
3. Autonomy
4. Environmental mastery
5. Purpose in life
6. Personal growth
Based on Reeve (2015, Table 11. 1, p. 305) which is based on Ryff (1991)

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Self-esteem
 Myth: Boosting self-esteem will boost
motivation
 Self-esteem is an outcome of having one's
needs fulfilled, not a cause – it provides a
“dashboard” indicator of how one is going.
 Artificially inflating self-esteem is not the
answer to low self-esteem - and can even
make problems such as narcissism worse.
 See Baumeister for further critique.
 Myth: Boosting self-esteem will boost
motivation
 Self-esteem is an outcome of having one's
needs fulfilled, not a cause – it provides a
“dashboard” indicator of how one is going.
 Artificially inflating self-esteem is not the
answer to low self-esteem - and can even
make problems such as narcissism worse.
 See Baumeister for further critique.

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Self-concept
(cognitive structure)
a reflection of the invariance people
have discovered in their own social
behaviour.
(the way the self has been differentiated and
articulated in memory)
Set of beliefs an individual uses to conceptualise
his or her self e.g.,
“I am....” (self-descriptions)
Cluster of domain-specific self-schemas

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Benefits of well-developed self-schema
Process information about
the self with relative ease.
Confidently predict own
future behaviour in the
domain.
Quickly retrieve self-
related behavioural
evidence from the domain.
Resist counter-schematic
information about one's
self.
Benefits of
well-developed
self-schema

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Motivational properties of
self-schemas
Self-schemas direct behaviour to confirm the self-view
and to prevent episodes that generate feedback that
might disconfirm that self-view.
Consistent
self
Self-schemas generate motivation to move the present
self toward a desired future self.
Possible
self

Processes underlying self-verification
and self-concept change

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Possible selves
An important piece of the puzzle
in understanding how the self develops
Mostly social in origin,
as the individual observes the selves modeled by others.
The possible self’s motivational role
is to link the present self with ways to become the possible (ideal) self.
Representations of attributes, characteristics, and
abilities that the self does not yet possess.
Portraying the self as a dynamic entity
with a past, present, and future.

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Agency
Human beings possess
a core self, energised
by innate motivation
and directed by the
inherent developmental
processes of
differentiation,
internalisation, and
integration.
Not all self-structures
are equally authentic;
while some reflect the
core self, others reflect
and reproduce the
society.
Self as action and development from within,
(innate processes and motivations)
Self as action and development from within,
(innate processes and motivations)

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Self-concordance
Based on Reeve (2015, Figure 11.3, p. 318) Self-Concordance Model
People pursue goals that are
congruent or “concordant” with their core self

Cyclical path model for the Self-concordance Model illustrates
developmental gains in well-being and self-concordance
The self-concordance model illustrates the motivational and developmental
benefits of pursuing life goals that emanate out of the integrated or core self.

Diagrammatic illustration of self-
integrated and non-integrated action
Figure 10. 4Based on Reeve (2015, Figure 11.2, p. 318)

Cyclical phases of self-regulation
Self-regulation involves the person’s
meta-cognitive monitoring of how his or her
goal-setting progress is going.

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Developing more competent self-regulation:
Summary of the social learning process
to acquire self-regulation skill
Acquiring a greater capacity for more effective self-regulation
increases the self’s capacity
to carry out the goal-setting process on one’s own.
Acquisition of
competent
self-regulation
skill
Able to self-regulate
one's goals, behaviours,
and standards in the
domain.
Lack of
self-
regulation
skill
Unable to regulate
one's goals,
implementation
intentions, and
coping strategies in
a new domain.
Social learning
process
1. Observe expert model
2. Imitation, social guidance,
feedback
3. Internalisation of standards
4. Self-regulatory process,
including self-monitoring,
self-evaluating

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Self-control
 Achievement of long-term goals requires the
goal striver to exercise control (will power)
over impulsive desires to gratify distracting
shorter-term goals
 Self-control is the capacity to suppress,
restrain, or override an impulsive desire,
urge, or behaviour.
 Use of the capacity for self-control causes
depletion and it then needs replenishment.
 Self-control can be enhanced through
practice.
 Achievement of long-term goals requires the
goal striver to exercise control (will power)
over impulsive desires to gratify distracting
shorter-term goals
 Self-control is the capacity to suppress,
restrain, or override an impulsive desire,
urge, or behaviour.
 Use of the capacity for self-control causes
depletion and it then needs replenishment.
 Self-control can be enhanced through
practice.

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Identity (social relationship)
Based on Reeve (2015, p. 329-331)
The identity directs the person to pursue some
behaviours (identity-confirming behaviours) and to avoid
other behaviours (identity-disconfirming behaviours).
Once people assume social roles (e.g., mother, bully),
their identities direct their behaviors in ways that express
the role-identity’s cultural value.
Identity is the means by which the self relates to society,
and it captures the essence of who the self is within a
cultural context.

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Nature of emotion
(Ch 12)
Next lecture

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References
 Ozur, E. M., & Bandura, A. (1990).
Mechanisms governing empowerment
effects: A self-efficacy analysis. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 58,
472-486.
 Reeve, J. (2009). Understanding motivation
and emotion (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
 Ryff, C. D. (1991). A tale of shifting
horizons. Psychology and Aging, 6, 286-
295.
 Ozur, E. M., & Bandura, A. (1990).
Mechanisms governing empowerment
effects: A self-efficacy analysis. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 58,
472-486.
 Reeve, J. (2009). Understanding motivation
and emotion (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
 Ryff, C. D. (1991). A tale of shifting
horizons. Psychology and Aging, 6, 286-
295.
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