Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bukowski, Marcin; Kofta, Miroslaw; Guinote, Ana; Fritsche, Immo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Coping with Uncontrollability is a unique integration of cutting-edge research on this timely topic, surveying the effects of control deprivation on social cognition, coping strategies, and how individuals relate to the broader social context. It will appeal particularly to students and scholars within social, organizational, and health psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317340164
• Artikelnr.: 47134373

Autorenporträt

Marcin Bukowski, Lecturer and Researcher, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Immo Fritsche, Professor of Psychology, Leipzig University, Germany. Ana Guinote, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK. Miros¿aw Kofta, Professor of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From Coping to Helplessness: Effects of Control Deprivation on Cognitive
and Affective Processes 2. The Motivation for Control: Loss of Control
Promotes Energy, Effort, and Action 3. "Ironic" Effects of Need for Closure
on Closed-minded Processing Mode: The Role of Perceived Control over
Reducing Uncertainty 4. Uncontrollability in the Classroom: The
Intellectual Helplessness Perspective 5. Compensatory Control Theory and
the Psychological Importance of Perceiving Order 6. Perceived
Uncontrollability as a Coping Resource: The Control-serving Function of
Enemies and Uncertainty 7. Giving in and Giving Up: Accommodation and
Fatalistic Withdrawal as Alternatives to Primary Control Restoration 8.
Extending Control Perceptions to the Social Self: Ingroups Serve the
Restoration of Control 9. Coping with Identity Threats to Group Agency as
well as Group Value: Explicit and Implicit Routes to Resistance 10.
Thinking Up and Talking Up: Restoring Control through Mindreading 11.
Accentuation of Tending and Befriending Among the Powerless 12. The
Emotional Side of Power(lessness) 13. Uncontrollability, Reactance, and
Power: Power as a Resource to Regain Control after Freedom Threats