- Maladaptive
- Avoidance
of challenge
- Deterioration
of performance in face of obstacles
- Failure
= negative self-cognitions (personal inadequacy in deficient
intelligence, memory, or problem-solving ability)
- Express
negative affect (aversion to the task, boredom, anxiety
- Direct
attention away from present performance and toward more successful
endeavors and praiseworthy attributes.
- Difficulties
= Failures and threats to self-esteem
- Further
effort is futile
- Performance
Goals (proving ability)
- Effort
measures ability (high effort = low ability, low effort = high ability)
- Overconcern
with proving adequacy = ignore, avoid, or abandon potential learning
opportunities
- Believe
intelligence is fixed
- Low
sociometric status (avoid rejection)
- Engage
in moral actions to prove morality
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- Adaptive
- Seek
challenging tasks
- Maintain
effective striving under failure
- Do
not make attributions to their failure
- Unsolved
problems = challenges to me mastered through effort.
- Solution-oriented
self-instruction and self-monitoring
- Positive
cognitions and affect
- Difficulties
= opportunities to learn
- Learning
Goals (improving ability)
- Believe
intelligence is increasable
- Highly
social (social interaction
- Develop
moral understanding to appropriately face a situation
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