Theory Driving Research

Dennis M. McInerney, Hong Kong Institute of Education.Herbert Marsh, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Rhonda G. Craven, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Frédéric Guay, Université Laval Québec, Canada.

• Preface.Chapter 1. New directions in self development: Resurrecting the I-Self, Susan Harter.Chapter 2. Hypoegoic States: What They Are, Why They Matter, and How They Occur, Mark R. Leary and Kate J. Diebels.Chapter 3. The Role of Passion in Optimal Functioning in Society, Robert J. Vallerand and Noémie Carbonneau.Chapter 4. Self-processes in Achievement Emotions: Perspectives of the Control-Value Theory, Reinhard Pekrun and Raymond P. Perry.Chapter 5. Self-Determination Theory and Actualization of Human Potential, Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan, and Frédéric Guay.Chapter 7. The Competition-Performance Relation from the Perspective of the Opposing Processes Model, Kou Murayama and Andrew J. Elliot.Chapter 8. Methodological Innovation in Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect Research: Methodological-Substantive Synergy at Work, Marjorie Seaton and Herbert W. Marsh.Chapter 9. Naturalizing and Contextualizing Self: Self-in-Action and Self-in-Reflection in Differential Development, David Yun Dai.Chapter 10. High Value with Low Perceived Competence as an Amplifier of Self-Worth Threat, Jeesoo Lee, Minhye Lee, and Mimi Bong.Chapter 11. Expectancy-Value Theory Revisited: From Expectancy-Value Theory to Expectancy-ValueS Theory, Ulrich Trautwein, Benjamin Nagengast, Herbert W. Marsh, Hanna Gaspard, Anna-Lena Dicke, Oliver Lüdtke, and Kathrin Jonkmann.Chapter 12. The Personal Proficiency Network: Key Self-system Factors and Processes to Optimize Academic Development, Andrew J. Martin.Chapter 13. Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees: Adopting a Multilevel Perspective on Student Achievement Motivation, Ronnel B. King and Dennis M. McInerney.