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References from The Life-Course Dynamics of Goal Pursuit and Goal Adjustment: A Two-Process Framework. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Gender differences in the usefulness of goal-directed coping for middle-aged and older workers
10.1111/j.1559-1816.1996.tb02737.x · 1996 · External reference
Hopelessness depression: An empirical search for a theory-based subtype
1990 · External reference
Depression and the causal inference process
1981 · External reference
Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression
10.1037/0033-295x.96.2.358 · 1989 · External reference
Construing benefits from adversity: Adaptational significance and dispositional underpinnings
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1996.tb00948.x · 1996 · External reference
Judgement of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: Sadder but wiser?
10.1037/0096-3445.108.4.441 · 1979 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1983 · External reference
A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition
10.1037/0033-295x.106.3.529 · 1999 · External reference
Psychological compensation: A theoretical framework
10.1037/0033-2909.112.2.259 · 1992 · External reference
Flexible Zielanpassung and hartnäckige Zielverfolgung als Bewältigungsressourcen: Hinweise auf ein Regulationsdilemma [Flexible goal adjustment and tenacious goal pursuit as coping resources: Hints to a regulatory dilemma]
1998 · External reference
Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology: On the dynamics between growth and decline
10.1037/0012-1649.23.5.611 · 1987 · External reference
Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model of selective optimization with compensation
1990 · External reference
The self and mechanisms of agency
1982 · External reference
Self-regulation of motivation and action through internal standards and goal systems
1989 · External reference
Self-efficacy: The foundation of agency
2000 · External reference
The crystallization of discontent in the process of major life change
1994 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1995 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1989 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1967 · External reference
Social-environmental factors in unipolar depression: Comparisons of depressed patients and non-depressed controls
10.1037/0021-843x.92.2.119 · 1983 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1993 · External reference
The interplay of heuristic and systematic processing of social information
1995 · External reference
Personal and social control over development: Some implications of an action perspective in life-span developmental psychology
1984 · External reference
Personal self-regulation of development: Cross-sequential analyses of development-related control beliefs and emotions
10.1037/0012-1649.25.1.96 · 1989 · External reference
Personal control over development: Some developmental implications of self-efficacy
1992 · External reference
Action perspectives on human development
1998 · External reference
Emotion, cognition, and control: Limits of intentionality
2000 · External reference
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Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood
1990 · External reference
10.1006/drev.1994.1003 · 1994 · Admitted local publication
Personal control and emotional evaluation of development in partnership relations during adulthood
1986 · External reference
Introduction: Development, action, and intentionality
1999 · External reference
Tenacious goal pursuit and flexible goal adjustment: Explication and age-related analysis of assimilative and accommodative strategies of coping
10.1037/0882-7974.5.1.58 · 1990 · External reference
Self-percepts of control in middle and later adulthood: Buffering losses by rescaling goals
10.1037/0882-7974.9.2.265 · 1994 · External reference
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Coping resources in later life
1997 · External reference
Maintaining self-integrity and self-efficacy through adulthood and later life: The adaptive functions of assimilative persistence and accommodative flexibility
1998 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1994 · External reference
Adjustment to shifting possibility frontiers in later life: Complementary adaptive modes
1995 · External reference
Adaptive resources of the aging self: Outlines of an emergent perspective
10.1177/016502549301600212 · 1993 · External reference
Intentional self-development through adulthood and later life: Tenacious pursuit and flexible adjustment of goals
1999 · External reference
Veränderungen der Zeit-und Zukunftsperspektive im Übergang zum höheren Alter: quer-und längsschnittliche Befunde [Age-related changes in future time perspective: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings]
1997 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1987 · External reference
Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?
10.1037/0022-3514.36.8.917 · 1978 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1985 · External reference
The pursuit of personal goals: A motivational approach to well-being and life adjustment
1999 · External reference
Negative reactions to increases in perceived control
10.1037/0022-3514.56.2.246 · 1989 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1977 · External reference
Motivation for social contact across the life-span: A theory of socioemotional selectivity
1993 · External reference
Origins and foundations of positive and negative affect: A control-process view
10.1037/0033-295x.97.1.19 · 1990 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1998 · External reference
Semantic priming in the intact brain: Separate roles for the right and the left hemispheres?
1988 · External reference
For better or worse: The impact of upward social comparison on self-evaluations
10.1037/0033-2909.119.1.51 · 1996 · External reference
Cognition in depression: A paradigm in crisis
10.1207/s15327965pli0303_5 · 1992 · External reference
Depression and coping in stressful episodes
10.1037/0021-843x.90.5.439 · 1981 · External reference
The role of cognition in depression: A critical appraisal
10.1037/0033-2909.94.3.472 · 1983 · External reference
Possible selves across the life span
10.1159/000277058 · 1991 · External reference
The activity movement
1934 · External reference
Sinngebung im Alter [Meaning in old age]
1990 · External reference
Striving and feeling: Personal goals and subjective well-being
1996 · External reference
Trying and giving up: Persistence and lack of persistence in failure situations
1989 · External reference
Stabilität and Qualität von Partnerschaften: Risiken and Ressourcen [Stability and quality of marriages: Risks and resources)
1998 · External reference
Emotional mood, cognitive style, and behavior regulation
1988 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1963 · External reference
Mood management: The role of processing strategies in affect control and affect infusion
1998 · External reference
The role of selection, optimization, and compensation in successful aging
1999 · External reference
The laws of emotion
10.1037/0003-066x.43.5.349 · 1988 · External reference
Psychological control in later life: Implications for life-span development
1999 · External reference
Are old people more depressed? Cross-sectional data on Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale Factors
10.1037/0882-7974.5.2.284 · 1990 · External reference
Individual change in perceived control over 20 years
10.1177/016502549301600211 · 1993 · External reference
The assent of man: Mental representation and the control of belief
1993 · External reference
Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting
10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.617 · 1998 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1996 · External reference
Goal effects on action and cognition
1996 · External reference
Competitive learning: From interactive activation to adaptive resonance
10.1111/j.1551-6708.1987.tb00862.x · 1987 · External reference
Psychobiological studies of stress and coping: An introduction
10.2307/1130680 · 1987 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1989 · External reference
Developmental regulation across adulthood: Primary and secondary control of age-related challenges
10.1037/0012-1649.33.1.176 · 1997 · External reference
A life-span theory of control
10.1037/0033-295x.102.2.284 · 1995 · External reference
Symptoms of depression and anxiety during adult life: Evidence for a decline in prevalence with age
10.1017/s0033291798007570 · 1998 · External reference
The “self digest”: Self-knowledge serving self-regulatory functions
10.1037/0022-3514.71.6.1062 · 1996 · External reference
Beyond pleasure and pain
10.1037/0003-066x.52.12.1280 · 1997 · External reference
Toward understanding the role of affect in cognition
1984 · External reference
Positive affect
1999 · External reference
Long-term analgesic effects of inescapable shock and learned helplessness
10.1126/science.573496 · 1979 · External reference
Expectations and what people learn from failure
1982 · External reference
Norm theory: Comparing reality to its alternatives
10.1037/0033-295x.93.2.136 · 1986 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1996 · External reference
Mechanisms of self-regulation: A systems view
10.1146/annurev.ps.44.020193.000323 · 1993 · External reference
Dopaminergic modulation of semantic network activation
10.1016/0028-3932(96)00024-3 · 1996 · External reference
Testing-the-limits and the study of adult age differences in cognitive plasticity of a mnemonic skill
10.1037/0012-1649.25.2.247 · 1989 · External reference
Consequences of commitment to and disengagement from incentives
10.1037/h0076171 · 1975 · External reference
Current concerns and disengagement from incentives
1987 · External reference
Goals as knowledge structures
1996 · External reference
Motivated closing of the mind: “Seizing” and “freezing.”
10.1037/0033-295x.103.2.263 · 1996 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1994 · External reference
Locus of control in aging research
10.1037/0882-7974.1.1.34 · 1986 · External reference
Toward an understanding of efficiency and inefficiency in human affairs: Discussion of Schönpflug's theory
1985 · External reference
Life regrets and current goals as predictors of psychological adjustment
10.1037/0022-3514.66.4.731 · 1994 · External reference
Inescapable shock and attention to internal versus external cues in a water discrimination escape task
1988 · External reference
Just world research and the attribution process: Looking back and ahead
10.1037/0033-2909.85.5.1030 · 1978 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1984 · External reference
Revisiting “individuals as producers of their development”: From dynamic interactionism to developmental systems
1999 · External reference
Self-complexity and affective extremity: Don't put all your eggs in one cognitive basket
10.1521/soco.1985.3.1.94 · 1985 · External reference
Self-complexity as a cognitive buffer against stress-related illness and depression
10.1037/0022-3514.52.4.663 · 1987 · External reference
Personal projects analyses: Trivial pursuits, magnificent obsessions, and the search for coherence
1989 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1974 · External reference
Self-perpetuating properties of dysphoric rumination
10.1037/0022-3514.65.2.339 · 1993 · External reference
Controllability, coping behavior, and stress-induced analgesia in the rat
10.1016/0304-3959(82)90169-5 · 1982 · External reference
The opioid/nonopioid nature of stress-induced analgesia and learned helplessness
1983 · External reference
The cognitive perspective in social psychology
1985 · External reference
Toward a motivational and structural theory of ruminative thought
1989 · External reference
The cybernetics of happiness: The relation between goal attainment, rumination, and affect
1992 · External reference
The counterfactual fallacy: Confusing what might have been with what ought to have been
10.1007/bf01048532 · 1990 · External reference
Coping with impending stress: Physiological and cognitive correlates of choice
10.1111/j.1469-8986.1979.tb01523.x · 1979 · External reference
Principles of self-regulation: The nature of willpower and self-control
1996 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1998 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1989 · External reference
Age differences in adults' control beliefs related to life goals and concerns
10.1037/0882-7974.7.2.194 · 1992 · External reference
Self-with-other representations and a taxonomy of motives: Two approaches to studying persons
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1995.tb00509.x · 1995 · External reference
On the benefits of misery: Self-serving biases in the depressive self-concept
10.1037/0022-3514.61.4.670 · 1991 · External reference
The effect of shock on recognition thresholds
10.1037/h0061018 · 1954 · External reference
Learned helplessness in chickens (Gallus gallus): Evidence for attentional bias
10.1006/lmot.1997.0952 · 1997 · External reference
Personal control through the life course
1987 · External reference
Counterfactual thinking and regulatory focus: Implications for action versus inaction and sufficiency versus necessity
10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1109 · 1999 · External reference
Overview of endocrinology of stress
1984 · External reference
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Auswirkungen von Belastungen und Verlusten auf die Lebensqualität: alters-und lebenszeitgebundene Moderationseffekte [Impact of stress and losses on subjective quality of life: Moderating effects of age and residual life expenctancy]
1998 · External reference
10.1027//1618-3169.49.1.57
10.1027//1618-3169.49.1.57 · External reference
Selbstwertschützende Verschiebungen in der Semantik des Begriffs “alt” im höheren Erwachsenenalter [Protecting self-esteem by shifting the semantics of the concept “old” in old age]
1995 · External reference
Retrieving positive memories to regulate negative mood. Consequences for mood-congruent memory
10.1037/0022-3514.78.4.737 · 2000 · External reference
Possible selves in adulthood and old age: A tale of shifting horizons
10.1037/0882-7974.6.2.286 · 1991 · External reference
Resilience in adulthood and later life: Defining features and dynamic processes
1998 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1977 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1998 · External reference
Coping with chronic pain: Flexible goal adjustment as an interactive buffer against pain-related distress
10.1016/0304-3959(96)03108-9 · 1996 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1990 · External reference
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1975 · External reference
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1998 · External reference
10.1016/s0022-1031(02)00005-7
10.1016/s0022-1031(02)00005-7 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1995 · External reference
Resilience and reserve capacity in later adulthood: Potentials and limits of development across the life span
1995 · External reference
Wisdom-related knowledge in a life review task: Age differences and the role of professional specialization
10.1037/0882-7974.7.2.271 · 1992 · External reference
Knee-deep in the Big Muddy: A study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action
10.1016/0030-5073(76)90005-2 · 1976 · External reference
Wisdom: Relations to intelligence and creativity
1990 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1976 · External reference
Adjustment to threatening events
10.1037/0003-066x.38.11.1161 · 1983 · External reference
Effects of mindset on positive illusions
10.1037/0022-3514.69.2.213 · 1995 · External reference
Cognitive vulnerability to persistent depression
10.1080/02699938808410927 · 1988 · External reference
The other side of perceived control: Disadvantages and negative effects
1988 · External reference
Computer modeling of adaptive depression
10.1002/bs.3830400404 · 1995 · External reference
Individual differences in the need for cognitive closure
10.1037/0022-3514.67.6.1049 · 1994 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1995 · External reference
Experimentelle Analysen zur Verarbeitung belastender Informationen: Differential-und alternspsychologische Aspekte [Experimental studies on the processing of negative information: Differential and age-related aspects]
1995 · External reference
When success breeds failure: The role of self-efficacy in escalating commitment to a losing course of action
10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199709)18:5<415::aid-job813>3.0.co;2-g · 1997 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1973 · External reference
Similarity and self-esteem in downward comparison
1991 · External reference
Focalism: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting
10.1037/0022-3514.78.5.821 · 2000 · External reference
Situational constraint as a moderator of the locus of control–adjustment relationship
10.1037/0022-006x.44.3.420 · 1976 · External reference
What is social comparison and how should we study it?
10.1177/0146167296225009 · 1996 · External reference
Energization and goal attractiveness
1989 · External reference
Adaptivität sozialer Vergleiche: Entwicklungsregulation durch primäre and sekundäre Kontrolle [Adaptiveness of social comparisons: Developmental regulation via primary and secondary control]
1996 · External reference