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Self-improvement Orientation

Self-Improvement Orientation is a psychological construct representing an individual's dispositional tendency to engage in upward social comparison with the primary goal of enhancing one's own abilities, behaviors, or attributes rather than evaluating or enhancing self-worth.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Divergent consequences of success and failure in Japan and North America: An investigation of self-improving motivations and malleable selves.

Steven Heine, Shinobu Kitayama, Darrin R. Lehman et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2001 · 720 citations

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Forming Professional Mobility in Future Agricultural Specialists: the Sociohistorical Context

Irina Gerasymova, Borys Maksymchuk, Marianna Bilozerova et al. · Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala · 2019 · 182 citations · Full text

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Shifting Inductive Bias with Success-Story Algorithm, Adaptive Levin Search, and Incremental Self-Improvement

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Jieyu Zhao, Marco Wiering · Machine Learning · 1997 · 172 citations · Full text

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Of Quality, Harmony, and Community: Civilization and the Middle Class in Urban China

Luigi Tomba · positions asia critique · 2009 · 129 citations

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Turning Fantasies About Positive and Negative Futures into Self-Improvement Goals

Gabriele Oettingen, Doris Mayer, Jennifer Thorpe et al. · Motivation and Emotion · 2005 · 115 citations

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Authors

77

  1. EI
    Eugene Ide

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    2 publications · 791 citations

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  2. TT
    Toshitake Takata

    Nara University, Japan

    2 publications · 791 citations

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  3. SH
    Steven Heine

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    2 publications · 791 citations

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  4. CL
    Cecilia Leung

    Sun Yat-sen University, China

    2 publications · 791 citations

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  5. SK
    Shinobu Kitayama

    University of Michigan, United States

    2 publications · 791 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Triemli Hospital

    Zurich, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    35 citations

  2. Fudan University

    Shanghai, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  3. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

    Toluca, Mexico

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    45 citations

  4. Westminster City Council

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  5. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    720 citations

  6. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    20 citations

  7. Alliant International University

    San Diego, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  8. Kühne Logistics University

    Hamburg, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    38 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Business Research

    JBR · 2 publications · 33 citations

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  2. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    2 publications · 791 citations

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  3. ˜The œCatholic historical review

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  4. Motivation and Emotion

    1 publications · 115 citations

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  5. positions asia critique

    1 publications · 129 citations

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