Handbook of Competence and Motivation
Theory and Application
2nd Edition
Published on 24. March 2017
722 pages
978-1-4625-2962-9 (ISBN)
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Researchers and students in social/personality, developmental, educational, and industrial/organizational psychology. Serves as a primary or supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in achievement motivation and related topics.
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Persons
Andrew J. Elliot, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. He has been a visiting professor at Cambridge University and Oxford University, United Kingdom; King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia; and the University of Munich, Germany, and a Visiting Fellow at Churchill College (Cambridge) and Jesus College (Oxford). Dr. Elliot's research focuses on achievement motivation and approach-avoidance motivation. He is editor of Advances in Motivation Science and author of approximately 200 scholarly publications. The recipient of multiple awards for his teaching and research contributions to educational and social/personality psychology, he has given keynote or university addresses in more than 20 countries, and his lab regularly hosts professors, postdocs, and graduate students from around the globe.
Carol S. Dweck, PhD, is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the critical role of mindsets in students' achievement and has led to successful intervention to foster student learning. Dr. Dweck is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and is the recipient of nine different lifetime achievement awards for her research. She addressed the United Nations on the eve of its new global development agenda and has advised governments on educational and economic policies. Dr. Dweck's bestselling book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success brought her research to the wider public.
David S. Yeager, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Yeager's research focuses on motivation and adolescent development and on the use of behavioral science to make improvements toward pressing social issues. Dr. Yeager is co-chair of the Mindset Scholars Network, an interdisciplinary network devoted to improving the science of learning mindsets and expanding educational opportunity. He holds appointments at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Population Research Center and the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and he is the recipient of more than 15 awards in social, developmental, and educational psychology.
Content
I. Introduction
1. Competence and Motivation: Theory and Application, Andrew J. Elliot, Carol S. Dweck, & David S. Yeager
II. Central Constructs
2. Intelligence and Competence in Theory and Practice, Robert J. Sternberg
3. Achievement Motives, David E. Conroy
4. Achievement Goals, Andrew J. Elliot & Chris S. Hulleman
5. An Attribution Perspective on Competence and Motivation: Theory and Treatment Interventions, Raymond P. Perry & Jeremy M. Hamm
6. Competence Self-Perceptions, Herbert W. Marsh, Andrew J. Martin, Alexander Seeshing Yeung, & Rhonda G. Craven
7. Achievement Values: Interactions, Interventions, and Future Directions, Allan Wigfield, Emily Q. Rosenzweig, & Jacquelynne S. Eccles
8. Mindsets: Their Impact on Competence Motivation and Acquisition, Carol S. Dweck & Daniel C. Molden
9. Understanding and Addressing Performance Anxiety, Sian L. Beilock, Marjorie W. Schaeffer, & Christopher S. Rozek
III. Relevant Processes
10. Challenge and Threat Appraisals, Jeremy P. Jamieson
11. Competence Assessment, Social Comparison, and Conflict Regulation, Fabrizio Butera & Céline Darnon
12. Competence as Central, but Not Sufficient, for High-Quality Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective, Richard M. Ryan & Arlen C. Moller
13. Competence and Pay for Performance, Barry Gerhart & Meiyu Fang
14. Achievement Emotions, Reinhard Pekrun
15. The Many Questions of Belonging, Gregory M. Walton & Shannon T. Brady
16. Stereotype Threat: New Insights into Process and Intervention, Robert J. Rydell, Katie J. Van Loo, & Kathryn L. Boucher
17. Role of Self-Efficacy and Related Beliefs in Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance, Barry J. Zimmerman, Dale H. Schunk, & Maria K. DiBendetto
18. Interest: Theory and Application, Judith M. Harackiewicz & Maximilian Knogler
19. On Becoming Creative: Basic Theory and Implications for the Workplace, Carsten K. W. De Dreu & Bernard A. Nijstad
20. Motivation, Competence, and Job Burnout, Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach
IV. Development
21. Early Reasoning about Competence Is Not Irrationally Optimistic, Nor Does It Stem from Inadequate Cognitive Representations, Andrei Cimpian
22. Self-Regulation in Early Childhood: Implications for Motivation and Achievement, C. Cybele Raver, Katherine A. Adams, & Clancy Blair
23. Competence and Motivation during Adolescence, David S. Yeager, Hae Yeon Lee, & Ronald E. Dahl
24. Competence and Motivation at Work throughout Adulthood: Making the Most of Changing Capacities and Opportunities, Jutta Heckhausen, Jacob Shane, & Ruth Kanfer
25. Motivational Factors as Mechanisms of Gene-Environment Transactions in Cognitive Development and Academic Achievement, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
V. Social Groups and Social Influences
26. Gender and Competence Motivation, Ruth Butler & Liat Hasenfratz
27. Social Class and Models of Competence: How Gateway Institutions Disadvantage Working-Class Americans and How to Intervene, Nicole M. Stephens, Andrea G. Dittmann, & Sarah S. M. Townsend
28. Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Competence Motivation, Beth E. Kurtz-Costes & Tanisha A. Woods
29. Social Striving: Social Group Membership and Children's Motivations and Competencies, Rebecca S. Bigler, Amy Roberson Hayes, & Meagan M. Patterson
30. The Role of Parenting in Children's Motivation and Competence: What Underlies Facilitative Parenting?, Eva M. Pomerantz & Wendy S. Grolnick
31. Peer Relationships, Motivation, and Academic Performance at School, Kathryn R. Wentzel
32. The Roles of Schools and Teachers in Fostering Competence Motivation, Eric M. Anderman & DeLeon L. Gray
33. Competence and Motivation in the Physical Domain: The Relevance of Self-Theories in Sports and Physical Education, Christopher M. Spray
34. Competence and the Workplace, Nico W. Van Yperen
VI. Psychological Interventions
35. Turning Point: Targeted, Tailored, and Timely Psychological Intervention, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Julio Garcia, & J. Parker Goyer
Supplemental E-Book Featuring Selected Chapters from the First Edition:
*A Conceptual History of the Achievement Goal Construct, Andrew J. Elliot
*Motivation from an Attribution Perspective and the Social Psychology of Perceived Competence, Bernard Weiner
*Self-Theories: Their Impact on Competence Motivation and Acquisition, Carol S. Dweck & Daniel C. Molden
*Competence Motivation in the Classroom, Tim Urdan & Julianne C. Turner
*Cultural Competence: Dynamic Processes, Chi-yue Chiu & Ying-yi Hong
