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Causes, correlates, and the functional role of global self-worth: A life-span perspective.
- Psychology
- 1990
Global self-esteem: Its relation to specific facets of self-concept and their importance.
- Psychology
- 1986
Possible selves as a mechanism for identity exploration.
- PsychologyJournal of adolescence
- 2000
This study examined one possible mechanism involved in the identity exploration process, and the pattern of responses exhibited by the Diffusion group appears to reflect a lack of thought and confidence regarding positive prospects for the future.
Hopelessness and risk behaviour among adolescents living in high-poverty inner-city neighbourhoods.
- PsychologyJournal of adolescence
- 2003
Does low self-esteem predict health compromising behaviours among adolescents?
- PsychologyJournal of adolescence
- 2000
Levels of global self-esteem significantly predicted adolescent report of problem eating, suicidal ideation, and multiple health compromising behaviours at age 15, in a large sample of young New Zealanders.
Self-Esteem and Perceived Control in Adolescent Substance Use : Comparative Tests in Concurrent and Prospective Analyses
- Psychology
- 2004
The relationship of positive and negative dimensions of self-esteem and perceived control to substance (tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana) use was tested with a sample of 1,775 adolescents, surveyed in…
Age differences in future orientation and delay discounting.
- PsychologyChild development
- 2009
Age differences in future orientation are examined in a sample of 935 individuals between 10 and 30 years using a delay discounting task as well as a new self-report measure to distinguish between future orientation and impulse control, which may have different neural underpinnings and follow different developmental timetables.
Relationships Between Future Orientation, Impulsive Sensation Seeking, and Risk Behavior Among Adjudicated Adolescents
- PsychologyJournal of adolescent research
- 2004
Analysis of relationships between future orientation and impulsive-sensation-seeking personality constructs to risk behaviors among 300 adjudicated adolescents found individuals with more positive future orientation were less likely to use marijuana, hard drugs, alcohol during sex, had fewer alcohol problems, and had lower levels of alcohol frequency and quantity of use.
Future orientation in the self-system: possible selves, self-regulation, and behavior.
- PsychologyJournal of personality
- 2006
The role of possible selves in motivation and behavior can be profitably studied in models that fully specify the process of self-regulation and that those models can be enriched by a consideration of future-oriented self-representations.