Handbook of Competence and Motivation

Andrew J. Elliot, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester, and is currently an associate editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and a section editor of Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Dr. Elliot has published approximately 100 scholarly works, has received research grants from public and private agencies, and has been awarded four different early- and mid-career awards for his research contributions. His research areas include achievement and affiliation motivation; approach-avoidance motivation; personal goals; subjective well-being; and parental, teacher, and cultural influences on motivation and self-regulation. Carol S. Dweck, PhD, is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, and has published significant work in the area of achievement motivation since the early 1970s. Dr. Dweck is one of the first researchers linking attributions to patterns of achievement motivation, an originator of achievement goal theory, and a pioneer in the area of self-theories of motivation. Her recent books include Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development; Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Lifespan (coedited with Jutta Heckhausen); and Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Her research is extensively cited in social, developmental, personality, and educational psychology.

I. Introduction

1. Competence and Motivation: Competence as the Core of Achievement Motivation, Andrew J. Elliot and Carol S. Dweck

II. Central Constructs

2. Intelligence, Competence, and Expertise,

Robert J. Sternberg

3. An Implicit Motive Perspective on Competence, Oliver C. Schultheiss and Joachim C. Brunstein

4. A Conceptual History of the Achievement Goal Construct, Andrew J. Elliot

5. Motivation from an Attributional Perspective and the Social Psychology of Perceived Competence, Bernard Weiner

6. Competence Perceptions and Academic Functioning, Dale H. Schunk and Frank Pajares

7. Subjective Task Value and the Eccles et al. Model of Achievement-Related Choices, Jacquelynne S. Eccles

8. Self-Theories: Their Impact on Competence Motivation and Acquisition, Carol S. Dweck and Daniel C. Molden

9. Evaluation Anxiety: Current Theory and Research, Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews

III. Developmental Issues

10. Temperament and the Development of Competence and Motivation, Mary K. Rothbart and Julie Hwang

11. The Development of Self-Conscious Emotions, Michael Lewis and Margaret Wolan Sullivan

12. Competence Assessment, Competence, and Motivation between Early and Middle Childhood, Ruth Butler

13. Competence, Motivation, and Identity Development during Adolescence, Allan Wigfield and A. Laurel Wagner

14. Competence and Motivation in Adulthood and Old Age: Making the Most of Changing Capacities and Resources, Jutta Heckhausen

IV. Contextual Influences

15. The Role of Parents in How Children Approach Achievement: A Dynamic Process Perspective, Eva M. Pomerantz, Wendy S. Grolnick, and Carrie E. Price

16. Peer Relationships, Motivation, and Academic Performance at School, Kathryn R. Wentzel

17. Competence Motivation in the Classroom, Tim Urdan and Julianne C. Turner

18. Motivation in Sport: The Relevance of Competence and Achievement Goals, Joan L. Duda

19. Work Competence: A Person-Oriented Perspective, Ruth Kanfer and Phillip L. Ackerman

20. Legislating Competence: High-Stakes Testing Policies and Their Relations with Psychological Theories and Research, Richard M. Ryan and Kirk W. Brown

V. Demographics and Culture

21. Gender, Competence, and Motivation, Janet Shibley Hyde and Amanda M. Durik

22. Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation and Competence, Sandra Graham and Cynthia Hudley

23. Children's Competence and Socioeconomic Status in the Family and Neighborhood, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Miriam R. Linver, and Rebecca C. Fauth

24. Stereotypes and the Fragility of Academic Competence, Motivation, and Self-Concept, Joshua Aronson and Claude M. Steele

25.The ""Inside"" Story: A Cultural–Historical Analysis of Being Smart and Motivated, American Style, Victoria C. Plaut and Hazel Rose Markus

26. Cultural Competence: Dynamic Processes, Chi-yue Chiu and Ying-yi Hong

VI. Self-Regulatory Processes

27. The Hidden Dimension of Personal Competence: Self-Regulated Learning and Practice, Barry J. Zimmerman and Anastasia Kitsantas

28. Engagement, Disengagement, Coping, and Catastrophe, Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier

29. Defensive Strategies, Motivation, and the Self: A Self-Regulatory Process View, Frederick Rhodewalt and Kathleen D. Vohs

30. Social Comparison and Self-Evaluations of Competence, Ladd Wheeler and Jerry Suls

31. The Concept of Competence: A Starting Place for Understanding Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determined Extrinsic Motivation, Edward L. Deci and Arlen C. Moller

32. Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Sami Abuhamdeh, and Jeanne Nakamura

33. Motivation, Competence, and Creativity, Mark A. Runco

34. Automaticity in Goal Pursuit, Peter M. Gollwitzer and John A. Bargh

35. Fantasies and the Self-Regulation of Competence, Gabriele Oettingen and Meike Hagenah