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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Self-handicapping"”.
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Socially Positive Behaviors as Self-Handicapping
Self-handicapping is a strategic measure taken to protect an individual's insecure positive reputation when future success is uncertain. Present literature operationalizes self-handicapping narrowly, focusing on socially negative behaviors such as drinking and procrastination. The current research …
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An investigation of the assumptions of self-handicapping : youth responses to evaluative threat in the physical domain
Self-handicapping refers to the process whereby people proactively plan excuses for future mistakes. The interpersonal motivation to self-handicap lies in clouding any evaluation of ability, whilst the intrapersonal motivation is the protection of self-esteem. On the surface, self-handicapping …
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Effects of self-esteem, evaluation modality and success contingency on goal choice: an integration of goal setting and self- handicapping theories
The current study examined the impact of self-presentation and self-esteem concerns on goal choice. Subjects who were high or low in self-esteem worked on a series of analogies and were presented with noncontingent or contingent success feedback. They were then told that their performance on an …
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The Imposter Phenomenon and Achievement Dispositions in High-Achieving Women in Clinical Psychology
… feelings and achievement dispositions (i.e., self-handicapping behaviors and personal development competitive attitudes). It was hypothesized that imposter feelings would be positively correlated to self-handicapping behaviors and negatively correlated to personal development competitive …
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Know Thyself: Misperceptions of Actual Performance Undermine Subjective Well-Being, Future Performance, and Achievement Motivation
Contrary to the popular assumption that self-enhancement improves task motivation and future performance, I propose that both inflated or deflated self-assessments of performance are linked to an increased likelihood of practicing self-handicapping and having relatively poor performance in future …
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Know thyself: Misperceptions of actual performance undermine subjective well-being, future performance and achievement motivation
Contrary to the popular assumption that self-enhancement improves task motivation and future performance, I propose that both inflated or deflated self-assessments of performance are linked to an increased likelihood of practicing self-handicapping and having relatively poor performance in future …
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The self-regulatory benefits of handicaps: Do handicapping situations encourage conservation of resources when success is uncertain?
Self-handicapping has been conceptualized as an identity-based strategy motivated by impression management and, more recently, as an avoidance coping strategy. However, additional evidence suggests that self-handicapping can provide a short-term performance boost (with detriments accruing over the …
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Situational Context and Personality Influences on Motor Performance: A Test of Self-Determination Theory
… personality orientation and situational prime on self-handicapping was also analyzed. Hypotheses were derived from key concepts of self-determination theory, specifically causality orientation theory, and previous work by Hodgins and colleagues (in press). The results of the study indicated that …
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Do You Feel Like a Fraud? How Experiencing the Impostor Phenomenon Influences Consumption Choices
… paths of progressing though the impostor cycle, self-handicapping or over-preparing, influences the willingness to pay for products.</p>
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An Empirical Investigation of Moral Injury in Combat Veterans
… during combat and that challenge one’s sense of self as a good person. These acts, labeled “transgressive acts,” are proposed to lead to a guilt and shame-based syndrome of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, demoralization, self-handicapping, and self-injury. Although the moral injury …
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Social play in the South American punare (Thrichomys apereoides): a test of play function hypotheses
… offspring, while paternal play was frequent. Self-handicapping was observed during father-daughter play. Dominance relationships were evident during play, with strong, stable hierarchies established among male juveniles. Adult males dominated all offspring and juvenile males dominated female …
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Flow within the engineering pipeline: Motivation of high -achieving students during the high school to college transition
… orientation was associated with self-handicapping and avoiding academic novelty in high school and college. Both men and women in this high-achieving sample reported on average a significant drop in self-efficacy scores and an increase in avoiding academic novelty scores during …
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Motivational processes underlying gender gaps in school engagement and achievement
… Furthermore, boys’ higher levels of academic self-handicapping were primarily explained by their greater concerns about peer status. Study 3 then moves beyond a binary perspective of gender to identify which boys and which girls are falling behind in school. Latent profile analyses identified …