A Quadripolar Need Achievement Representation of Self-Handicapping and Defensive Pessimism

By Andrew J. Martin, Herbert W. Marsh, R. Debus. 2001

115 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Andrew J. Martin
2. Herbert W. Marsh
3. R. Debus
4. Alexandre J. S. Morin
5. Benjamin Nagengast
6. Huy P Phan
7. Ulrich Trautwein
8. O. Lüdtke

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Andrew J. Martin
2. Herbert W. Marsh
3. R. Debus
4. P. Parker
5. Alexandre J. S. Morin
6. Paul Ginns
7. G. Liem
8. Brad A Papworth

In Social Psychology

1. Andrew J. Martin
2. Herbert W. Marsh
3. R. Debus
4. Alan Williamson
5. G. Liem
6. Paul Ginns
7. Brad A Papworth
8. P. Parker

Citations in the corpus

• Self-handicapping, defensive pessimism, and goal orientation : a qualitative study of university students (2003, background): “In fact, projecting lowered expectations can serve to set performance standards that are less difficult to achieve (Martin et al., 2001a, 2001b; Showers & Ruben, 1990) and may even lower the threshold for satisfactory performance (Baumgardner & Brownlee, 1987; Martin et al., 2001a, 2001b ).”
• Boys and motivation (2003, background): “Such defensive manoeuvring can take the form of defensive pessimism (setting unrealistically low expectations leading up to performance situations: Martin, Marsh and Debus 2001a, 2001b, 2003, Martin, Marsh, Williamson and Debus 2003, Norem and Cantor 1986a, 1986b), self-sabotage (setting obstacles”