On the self-regulation of behavior - Carver, Charles S.; Scheier, Michael (Cambridge, UK ;;New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Introduction and plan -- Principles of feedback control -- Discrepancy-reducing feedback processes in behavior -- Discrepancy-enlarging loops, and three further issues -- Goals and behavior -- Goals, Hierarchicality, and behavior: further issues -- Public and private aspects of the self -- Control processes and affect -- Affect: issues and comparisons -- Expectancies and disengagement -- Disengagement: issues and comparisons -- Applications to problems in living -- Hierarchicality and problems in living -- Chaos and dynamic systems -- Catastrophe theory -- Further applications to problems in living -- Is behavior controlled or does it emerge -- Goal engagement, life, and death.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-422) and indexes.
Keywords: Power, Psychological; Behavior; Feedback; Goals