Preface

Contributors

Basic Aspects and Varieties of Control

Emotion, Cognition, and Control: Limits of Intentionality

Jochen Brandtstadter

Self-Efficacy: The Foundation of Agency

Albert Bandura

The Orchestration of Selection, Optimization and Compensation: An Action-Theoretical Conceptualization of a Theory of Developmental Regulation

Alexandra M. Freund

Paul B. Baltes

Freedom of the Will---the Basis of Control

Mario von Cranach

Conscious, Automatic, and Controlled Processes

Automatic and Controlled Uses of Memory in Social Judgments

Werner Wippich

Are Controlled Processes Conscious?

Margit E. Oswald

Volker Gadenne

Intuition and Levels of Control: The Non-Rational Way of Reacting, Adapting, and Creating

Walter J. Perrig

Perception, Knowledge, Memory, and Learning

The Issue of Control in Sensory and Perceptual Processes: Attention Selects and Modulates the Visual Input

Rudolf Groner

Marina T. Groner

The Control of Knowledge Activation in Discourse Comprehension

Walter Kintsch

Working Memory and Attentional Control

Anik de Ribaupierre

Problem-Oriented Learning: Facilitating the Use of Domain-Specific and Control Strategies through Modeling by an Expert

Heinz Mandl

Cornelia Grasel

Frank Fischer

The Role of Cognitive Structure in the Development of Behavioral Control: A Dynamic Skills Approach

Thomas R. Bidell

Kurt W. Fischer

Metacognitive Control in Analogical Reasoning

Fredi P. Buichel

Emotion, Motivation, and Action

Emotional Expression: A Royal Road for the Study of Behavior Control

Klaus Scherer

Control Psychology under the Control of Questionnaires? The Search for an Alternative Assessment Procedure

Meinrad Perrez

Peter Wilhelm

The Control of Unwanted States and Psychological Health: Consistency-Safeguards

Hansjorg Znoj

Klaus Grawe

Self-Regulation and Rumination: Negative Affect and Impaired Self-Accessibility

Julius Kuhl

Nicola Baumann

The Concept of Control: A Key Concept in Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Responsible Environmental Behavior

Ursula Peter

Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz

Developmental Perspectives: Stability and Change

Dynamics of Perceived Control Across Adolescence and Adulthood

Alexander Grob

The Development of a Depressive Personality Orientation: The Role of the Individual

Francoise D. Alsaker

Control of Action and Interaction: Perceiving and Producing Effects in Action and Interaction with Objects

Lieselotte van Leeuwen

Franz Kaufmann

Daniel Walther

The Development of Internal versus External Control Beliefs in Developmentally Relevant Contexts of Children's and Adolescents' Lifeworlds

Wolfgang Edelstein

Matthias Grundmann

Alexandra Mies

School-Related Self-Efficacy Among Adolescents from Former East and West Germany: Age Trends, Association with School Performance, and Family Correlates

Rainer K. Silbereisen

Margit Wiesner

Control Beliefs, Health, and Well-Being In Elderly

Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello

Socialization, Systems, and Culture

Do I Choose? Attribution and Control in Students of a Technical School

Claude Albert Kaiser

Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont

Jean-Francois Perret

Social Influence and Control Beliefs in Identity Threatening Contexts

Juan M. Falomir

Gabriel Mugny

Alain Quiamzade

Fabrizio Butera

Adolescents as Agents in the Promotion of their Positive Development: The Role of Youth Actions in Effective Programs

Richard M. Lerner

Catherine E. Barton

Social Control, Perceived Control, and the Family

Werner Wicki

The Cultural Scripts of Control and Individualization: Consequences for Growing Up During Adolescence in Modern Societies

Helmut Fend

Domain-Specific Control Beliefs in Literacy and Numeracy versus Actual Performance among Adults

Francois Stoll

Philipp Notter

Using Employee Opinion Surveys to Identify Control Mechanisms in Organisations

Peter M. Hart

Alexander J. Wearing

Self-Efficacy and the School System

Fritz Oser

Control at Work: Issues of Specificity, Generality, and Legitimacy

Norbert Semmer

Author Index

Subject Index