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Author Bukowski, Marcin

Title Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World: An introduction; Part 1 Cognitive, emotional, and socio-behavioral reactions to uncontrollability; 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
Part 2 Socially grounded responses to perceived lack of control: From compensation to active coping5 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 resistancePart 3 Uncontrollability, powerlessness, and intergroup cognition; 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; Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Fritsche, Immo
Guinote, Ana
Kofta, Mirosław
ISBN 9781317340157
1317340159