Evaluation of Performance: A Judgmental Approach

ISBN-13: 9780387967684 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 164 str.

Bettina Hannover

Opis

Evaluation of Performance: A Judgmental Approach presents a theoretical analysis of the emotional significance of self-evaluative reactions and their relevance in explaining unipolar depression. The author discusses both the theoretical and practical implications of her research findings from two experiments: one related to self-evaluation under threat to self-esteem and the other to context manipulation.

Spis treści

I.- Self-evaluations of own performances as judgments: the internal standard.- Perceptual perspectives in achievement-related contexts.- Prior self-produced performance results.- Task-inherent properties.- Performances of social comparison persons.- Scale effects versus changed stimulus-perception.- Causal structures between stimulus-perception, judgments, and mood.- Choice of perspectives.- Aspects of response language.- Threat to self-esteem.- Actual self-evaluations and global self-esteem.- Etiology of unipolar depression.- Summary of hypotheses.- II.- Experiment I..- Method.- Subjects.- Stimulus materials.- Procedure.- Dependent measures.- Results.- Task performance data.- Effects of threat to self-esteem.- Effects of perspectives.- Comparison between expected and observed values.- Causal structures.- Discussion.- Experiment II.- Method.- Subjects.- Stimulus materials.- Procedure.- Dependent measures.- Results.- Task performance data.- Effects of threat to self-esteem.- Effects of perspectives.- Effects of standard set rating.- Comparison between expected and observed values.- Causal structures.- III.- General Discussion.- Effects of threat to self-esteem.- Could threat and self-evaluation be non-linearly related?.- Were there differences in sensitivity and/or response bias?.- Could threat have influenced achievement motivation?.- Effects of perspectives.- The standard set as a method.- Scale effects versus changed stimulus-perception.- Effects of the “life perspective”.- Different functions of judgments.- Implications for depression research.- References.