The ideal self as the driver of intentional change

By Richard Boyatzis, K. Akrivou. 2006

305 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/58e11f5827073752c5bdabc687a6b399b5fa9700

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In Applied Psychology

1. L. Froman
2. Philip Hiver
3. Richard Boyatzis
4. Shaw-Chiang Wong

In Clinical Psychology

1. L. Froman
2. Philip Hiver
3. Richard Boyatzis

In Social Psychology

1. L. Froman
2. Philip Hiver
3. Mallory Anderson
4. Eric E. Hall
5. Richard Boyatzis
6. Angela M. Passarelli
7. Shaw-Chiang Wong

Citations in the corpus

• The interplay of possible language teacher selves in professional development choices (2013, background): “…knowledge of past and current experienced states (Oyserman, Ager, & Gant, 1995), and partly because emotion requires an experienced state to exist (Boyatzis & Akrivou, 2006; Cantor, 1990), possible selves include an experience of what it would be like to be in that future state ‘from the inside’…”
• An overview of intentional change from a complexity perspective (2006, background): “This is explained in detail in the paper in this issue by Boyatzis and Akrivou (2006).”
• Positive Psychology in the Workplace (2010, background): “Along these same lines of inquiry, a related approach focuses on the concept of the ideal self ( Boyatzis and Akrivou 2006 ), as emotional and cognitive drivers of intentional change.”
• A Strengths-Based Approach to Outdoor and Adventure Education: Possibilities for Personal Growth (2010, background): “Research on intentional change supports the notion that effective developmental efforts co-activate positive and negative emotions by moving between the ideal (strength building) and real (gap analysis) and are anchored in the positive (Boyatzis & Akrivou, 2006; Howard, 2006).”
• LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FROM A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE (2008, methodology): “Boyatzis and Akrivou (2006) reported that a person’s vision appears in many forms in practice.”