The Self in European and North American Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: The Self from All Directions

   • Annerieke Oosterwegel, Robert A. Wicklund

   Pages 1-4

3. Identity and Identity Processes: What are we talking about?

   • Harke A. Bosma

   Pages 5-17

4. Identity Status Development and Students’ Perception of the University Environment: A Cohort-Sequential Study

   • Luc Goossens

   Pages 19-32

5. Adolescent Identity Development and Social Context: Towards an Integrative Perspective

   • Sandy Jackson

   Pages 33-44

6. The Problem of Self-Continuity in the Context of Rapid Personal and Cultural Change

   • Michael J. Chandler, Chris E. Lalonde

   Pages 45-63

7. Self-Narratives as Personal Structures of Meaning

   • Jeroen Jansz

   Pages 65-72

8. Narrative Self, Understanding, and Action

   • Jerzy Trzebinski

   Pages 73-88

9. The Development of the Ability to Represent Oneself

   • Belén García Torres

   Pages 89-101

10. Private Goals and Social Influences: The Complexity of Studying Self-System Development

    • Annerieke Oosterwegel

    Pages 103-126

11. The Self as a “Virtual Machine”: Structure versus Content

    • Louis Oppenheimer

    Pages 127-142

12. Self-Concept and Information-Processing: Methodological Problems and Theoretical Implications

    • Waldemar Mittag

    Pages 143-158

13. On Integrating Cognitive and Motivational Explanations in Psychology

    • William M. Bernstein

    Pages 159-168

14. Low Mutuality of Self- and Other-Descriptions as a Risk Factor for Adolescents’ Competence and Self-Esteem

    • Marcel A. G. van Aken, Cornelis F. M. van Lieshout, Gerbert J. T. Haselager

    Pages 169-182

15. Paranoia and Self-Focused Attention

    • Allan Fenigstein

    Pages 183-192

16. The Role of Optimism Versus Pessimism in the Experience of the Self

    • Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier

    Pages 193-204

17. Self-Concept and Motivation during Adolescence: Their Influence on School Achievement

    • Anne Marie Fontaine

    Pages 205-217

18. Dimensions of Math and Verbal Self-Concept and the Internal/External Frame of Reference Model

    • Einar M. Skaalvik, Richard J. Rankin

    Pages 219-237

19. The Distinction between Self- and Other-Related Failure Outcome Expectancies: An Internal Domain Study of Indian and Norwegian Students

    • Knut A. Hagtvet, Sagar Sharma

    Pages 239-255

20. Cognitive Distinctness of Self — We — Others Schemata and the Tendency to Social Categorization

    • Anna Kwiatkowska

    Pages 257-275

How diverse or potentially overlapping are the numerous self-models, self-theories, and directions of self-research? It has become clear that the processes associated with the self are complex and diverse, and that many of the approaches associated with the self have been pursued in isolation. Moreover, the fact of there being different traditions within developmental and social psychology, as well as different traditions in Europe and North America, has also led to a certain cacophony when we examine the self-field as a whole.
The chapters here confront these differences, trying to come to terms with phenomena that are overarching, that extend through the dimensions of developmental psychology, social psychology, motivation psychology, and parts of clinical psychology. The book as whole gives a clear presentation of the issues, questions and phenomena that surface in research fields known as self psychology.

• Motivation
• Self Psychology
• attention
• complex
• development
• developmental psychology
• psychology
• social psychology

• Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  Annerieke Oosterwegel

• Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

  Robert A. Wicklund

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