Personal Control Beliefs

5 important questions on Personal Control Beliefs

Two ways to conceptualize expectancy motivation

  1. Through interactions of person, behaviour and outcome
  2. Through self, action and control

Personal behaviour history

This refers to the interpretations and memories of past attempts to execute the same behaviour.

Pessimistic explanatory style

Tendency to explain bad events with attributions that are stable and uncontrollable (Lost contest -> “I’m too small for this”). -> “giving up” in time of setback/failure.
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Optimistic explanatory style

Explaining bad events with attributions that are unstable and controllable. These people tend to take substantial credit for their successes but take no blame for failures.

Integrated model of reactance and learned helplessness

Extent of coping can be graphed as a function of the number of failures (i.e., no control situations). Activity coping is initially high and surges after a first failure. Subsequent failures lead to exponentially less coping until learned helplessness.

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