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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Editors’ general introduction
- Editors’ introduction to Parts I to VIII
- Part I Foundation Issues
- Part II Personality Description and Measurement
- Part III Development, Health and Personality Change
- Part IV Biological Perspectives
- Part V Cognitive Perspectives
- 22 Semantic and linguistic aspects of personality
- 23 Personality and performance:
- 24 Self-regulation and control in personality functioning
- 25 Self-determination theory:
- 26 Traits and the self:
- 27 Personality as a cognitive-affective processing system
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes
- Part VII Psychopathology
- Part VIII Applied Personality Psychology
- Index
25 - Self-determination theory:
a consideration of human motivational universals
from Part V - Cognitive Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Editors’ general introduction
- Editors’ introduction to Parts I to VIII
- Part I Foundation Issues
- Part II Personality Description and Measurement
- Part III Development, Health and Personality Change
- Part IV Biological Perspectives
- Part V Cognitive Perspectives
- 22 Semantic and linguistic aspects of personality
- 23 Personality and performance:
- 24 Self-regulation and control in personality functioning
- 25 Self-determination theory:
- 26 Traits and the self:
- 27 Personality as a cognitive-affective processing system
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes
- Part VII Psychopathology
- Part VIII Applied Personality Psychology
- Index
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 441 - 456Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009