Confronting the Enemy Within: An In-Depth Study on Psychological Self-Handicapping among Collegiate Musicians
Description:
Self-handicapping is a psychological behavior people engage in to protect their self-image, project a desired image to others, and to augment feelings of success and achievement. Self-handicapping occurs when individuals have a positive but uncertain self-image about their competence in an arena of life fundamental to their self-identity. Musicians have been underrepresented in self-handicapping studies; yet the very competitive nature of their education and craft, the strong identification mus…
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Date:
August 2016
Creator:
Flowers, Michelle C.