Mastering One's Destiny: Mastery Goals Promote Feeling Challenged in Identity Threatening Achievement Contexts
Three experiments integrated insights from achievement goal theory, social identity threat, and stress and coping research, to develop a theory-based strategy individuals can use to navigate social identity threat in high stakes achievement settings. In all experiments women were asked to adopt a ma...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2011
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/486 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1488&context=open_access_dissertations |