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Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on self-processes and human
development provides a unique insight into self-processes from varied theoretical
perspectives. The chapters in this volume develop avant-garde theoretical ideas to
drive future, cutting-edge, empirical research and together, in one collected
volume, make a valuable contribution to scholarly literature on self-processes. Among the themes covered are
resurrecting the "I-self", a re-look at the dichotomy between the I-self, and the Me-self based on James's
analysis, the actualization of human potential, naturalizing and contextualizing the self, hypo-egoic states,
personal proficiency networks, competition and performance relationships, achievement motivations, passion
and optimal functioning in society, competence and self-worth threat, new interpretations of expectancy-value
research, methodological advances in BFLPE research and multilevel models of student achievement
motivation. This monograph, the fourth in the International Advances in Self Research monograph series,
provides a wealth of information on new theorizing and provides a platform for generating the next wave of
research designed to understand the fundamental role self-processes play in human development.
About the author
Dennis M. McInerney, Hong Kong Institute of Education.
Herbert Marsh, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Rhonda G. Craven, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Frederic Guay, Universite Laval Quebec, Canada.
