Stringent Standards Of Self-evaluation [can] Make Otherwise

People Behave Agentically, But They Produce Theories That Afford People Very Little Agency.

Among The Types Of Thoughts That Affect Action, None Is More Central Or Pervasive Than People's Judgments Of Their Capabilities To Deal Effectively With Different Realities

Judgments Of Adequacy Involve Social Comparison Processes

Dysfunctions Can Occur In Each Of The Self-regulatory Subfunctions-in How Personal Experiences Are Self-monitored And Cognitively Processed, In The Evaluative Self-standards That Are Adopted, And In The Evaluative Self-reactions To One's Own Behavior.. Problems At Any One Of These Points Can Create Self-dissatisfactions And Dejection. Dysfunctions In All Aspects Of The Self System Are Most Apt To Produce The Most Chronic Self-disparagement And Despondency

The Adequacy Of Performance Attainments Depends Upon The Personal Standards Against Which They Are Judged