Personal Control in Action

Download or read book Personal Control in Action written by Miroslaw Kofta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study presents exciting international research developments on personal control and self-regulation. Each chapter examines the subject at a different level of analysis to foster a complete understanding. Brief synopses of each chapter are provided as introductions to the three major sections of the book. These sections cover the person as an agent of control, affective and cognitive mechanisms of executive agency, and reactions to threatened control.