No Occasion for Pleasure: The Self-Worth Contingency of a Setback and Coping With Humor
Whether or not one uses humor to cope with a setback may depend on the idiosyncratic relation of the setback to feeling of self-worth. All people pursue the higher order goal of self-validation, but people differ in what domains of life their self-worth is contingent upon and to what extent. In this...
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| Language: | English |
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PsychOpen
2014-08-01
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| Series: | Europe's Journal of Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/743 |