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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149373503321

Titolo

Coping with lack of control in a social world / / edited by Marcin Bukowski, Immo Fritsche, Ana Guinote & Miroslaw Kofta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-66145-4

1-317-34015-9

1-317-34016-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Collana

Current Issues in Social Psychology

Disciplina

155.9/2

155.92

Soggetti

Control (Psychology)

Social psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Cognitive, emotional, and socio-behavioral reactions to uncontrollability -- pt. 2. Socially grounded responses to perceived lack of control : from compensation to active coping -- pt. 3. Uncontrollability, powerlessness, and intergroup cognition.

Sommario/riassunto

Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World offers an integrated view of cutting-edge research on the effects of control deprivation on social cognition. The book integrates multi-method research demonstrating how various types of control deprivation, related not only to experimental settings but also to real life situations of helplessness, can lead to variety of cognitive and emotional coping strategies at the social cognitive level. The comprehensive analyses in this book tackle issues such as: Cognitive, emotional and socio-behavioral reactions to threats to personal control How social factors aid in coping with a sense of lost or threatened control Relating uncontrollability to powerlessness and intergroup processes How lack of control experiences can influence basic and complex cognitive processes This book integrates various strands of research that have not yet been presented together in an innovative volume that addresses the issue of



reactions to control loss in a socio-psychological context. Its focus on coping as an active way of confronting a sense of uncontrollability makes this a unique, and highly original, contribution to the field. Practicing psychologists and students of psychology will be particularly interested readers.