354 Pages
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Psychology Press
360 Pages
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Psychology Press
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Research on anxiety and motivation has witnessed substantial progress in recent years in developing innovative perspectives and applying advanced psychometric tools. The most important contributions were made by cognitively oriented psychologists who have related the information processing view to anxiety and motivation. The organized knowledge about oneself and the storage, processing and... Read more
1: Self-Related Cognitions in Anxiety and Motivation; 2: Test Anxiety, Worry, and Cognitive Interference; 3: Anxiety and Cognitive Processing of Instruction 1; 4: Differences in Anxiety Among Androgynous Women; 5: Two Kinds of Shyness; 6: Social Support, Social Behavior, and Cognitive Processes; 7: Coping With Life Events; 8: Functional and Dysfunctional Responses to Anxiety; 9: Fitting to the Environment and the Use of Dispositions; 10: The Dynamics of Self-Determination in Personality and Development; 11: Children's Responses to Evaluative Feedback; 12: Conceptions of Motivation Within Competitive and Noncompetitive Goal Structures; 13: Anatomy of Failure-Induced Anxiety; 14: Conceptions of Ability in Children and Adults; 15: Outcome Comparisons in Group Contexts; 16: On the Structure of Self-Concept
Biography
Ralf Schwarzer, Free University of Berlin
