Work, status, and self-esteem : a theory of selective self investment
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Work, status, and self-esteem : a theory of selective self investment
University Press of America, c2003
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [209]-251
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The book presents a theory explaining variations in the extent to which work affects self-esteem. The conventional wisdom is that work necessarily influences self-esteem, but the research evidence presented in the text indicates that this is not the case. There is, in fact, considerable variation in the extent of this relationship. A systematic theory relating attributes of the self and characteristics of status assignment systems to the self-investment process is presented.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Self-Investment: Introduction
- Some Related Concepts Chapter 2 The Social Self: Self-Concept: Self and Self-Awareness
- The Need for Self-Esteem: The Conventional View
- The Meaning of Self-Esteem Need
- Self-Investment and the Need for Self-Esteem Chapter 3 The Meaning of Status: Introduction: Definitions
- Occupational Status Differentiation Chapter 4 Status Assignment Systems: Introduction
- Salience of Occupational Status: Clarity of System Boundaries
- Consensus in Status Assignment Systems
- Heterogeneity in Status Assignment Systems
- Shape of Status Hierarchies
- Opportunity for Mobility
- Chapter 5 Selective Self-Investment: Responses to Negative Evaluation or Comparison
- Dimensions of Response to Evaluation
- A Model of the Self-Investment Process: Status Arrangements and Self-Investment
- Structural Support for Low Self-Investment Chapter 6 Occupational Self-Investment
- Career Stages: Prior to Labor Force Entry
- Early Career Experience
- Later Career Stages Chapter 7 Appendix: Summary of Theory Chapter 8 Bibliography Chapter 9 Index
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