Evaluation of Performance A Judgmental Approach [Paperback]

Evaluation of Performance: A Judgmental Approach presents a theoretical analysis of the emotional significance of self-evaluative reactions and their relevance in explaining unipolar depression. The author discusses both the theoretical and practical implications of her research findings from two experiments: one related to self-evaluation under threat to self-esteem and the other to context manipulation.Evaluation of Performance: A Judgmental Approach presents a theoretical analysis of the emotional significance of self-evaluative reactions and their relevance in explaining unipolar depression. The author discusses both the theoretical and practical implications of her research findings from two experiments: one related to self-evaluation under threat to self-esteem and the other to context manipulation.I.- Self-evaluations of own performances as judgments: the internal standard.- Perceptual perspectives in achievement-related contexts.- Prior self-produced performance results.- Task-inherent properties.- Performances of social comparison persons.- Scale effects versus changed stimulus-perception.- Causal structures between stimulus-perception, judgments, and mood.- Choice of perspectives.- Aspects of response language.- Threat to self-esteem.- Actual self-evaluations and global self-esteem.- Etiology of unipolar depression.- Summary of hypotheses.- II.- Experiment I..- Method.- Subjects.- Stimulus materials.- Procedure.- Dependent measures.- Results.- Task performance data.- Effects of threat to self-esteem.- Effects of perspectives.- Comparison between expected and observed values.- Causal structures.- Discussion.- Experiment II.- Method.- Subjects.- Stimulus materials.- Procedure.- Dependent measures.- Results.- Task performance data.- Effects of threat to self-esteem.- Effects of perspectives.- Effects of standard set rating.- Comparison between expected and observed values.- Causal structures.- III.- General Discussion.- Eló,