Human autonomy in cross-cultural context : perspectives on the psychology of agency, freedom, and well-being / Valery I. Chirkov, Richard M. Ryan, Kennon M. Sheldon, Editors.
This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explo...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
[2011]
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| Series: | Cross-cultural advancements in positive psychology ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy development which has been under development for more than three decades (Deci & Ryan, 2000). As the contributions will make clear, psychological autonomy is a concept that forms the bridge between the depende. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283079925 9048196671 9781283079921 9789048196678 |