Self-Esteem and Expectancy-Value Discrepancy: The Effects of Believing that You can (or can’t) Get What You Want

Abstract

(from the chapter) highlight the empirical trends that emerge across the preceding chapters and offer the beginnings of a unified explanation / discuss the implications of the contributors' theory and research (and [the authors'] unified explanation) for behavior in organizational settings / [discusses the idea that] whether someone will behave in an esteem-building way . . . depends upon the individual's expectations that he or she can perform the behavior, the belief that the behavior leads to certain outcomes, and the value that he or she places on the outcomes /// toward explanation of the emerging trends [self-enhancement and self-consistency, effects on affective and cognitive measures, clarity of self-knowledge, self-enhancement versus self-protection] / organizational implications [collective self-esteem] ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved)