Abstract
Abstract Recently, considerable attention has been given to the role of self-schemata in cognitive processing of predictions and evaluation of behavioural events. In the context of a behaviour-analytic conceptualisation of complex disorders we have suggested evaluative self-schemata, operationalised as self-ideal discrepancies, as a salient factor in the regulation of behaviours. Accordingly, it was hypothesized that negative evaluative self-schemata, assumed to guide and organize cognitive processing, would predict low efficacy expectations, impaired performance, negative self-evaluation, and unprocessed post-test self-efficacy in a coping/achievement task. Most of these hypotheses were empirically supported with the notable exception that the negative self-schema group showed only marginal deterioration of task performance. However, given a more adaptive performance than expected, this was strongly contrasted by lack of visible effect on post-test efficacy, as would be predicted from self-efficacy and s...
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