This review focuses on the paradoxical concept of self-leadership—defined as a
comprehensive self-influence process capturing how individuals motivate themselves to …

People have a basic need to maintain the integrity of the self, a global sense of personal
adequacy. Events that threaten self-integrity arouse stress and self-protective defenses that …

Long-standing social problems such as poor achievement, personal and intergroup conflict,
bad health, and unhappiness can seem like permanent features of the social landscape. We …

Objective: Emerging theory and research suggest that self-compassion promotes the
practice of health behaviors, and implicates self-regulation as an explanatory factor …

One common obstacle to the audience's embracing the persuader's advocated action or
viewpoint is the audience's current attitudes, that is, the audience's general evaluations (of …

Objectives: Self-affirmation (induced by reflecting upon important values, attributes, or social
relations) appears to reduce defensive resistance to health-risk information and increase …

Tourism practitioners can generally choose to provide the tourists with either complex,
fancier environments (eg, restaurants, destinations) and products (eg, souvenirs) or simpler …

Objective: The present study aimed to quantify the magnitude of the effect of self-affirmation
manipulations on health messages' influence on both intentions and behavior. Methods: A …

Self-affirmation—a theory-based technique to affirm the adaptive adequacy of the self—can
promote positive behavior change and adaptive outcomes, although effects are variable. We …

Objectives Excessive alcohol consumption increases when students enter university. This
study tests whether combining (1) messages that target key beliefs from the theory of …