In this study, we addressed the role of two sources of pressure (i.e., social pressure eliciting ego-involvement and child failure) on parents' situational use of control.
Third, through its appearance functions, technology can support the basic need of relatedness through expression of emotion and identity, ego-involvement, and territory marking.
Such concepts as self-esteem, self-image, and ego-involvement have been regarded by some social psychologists as useful, while others have regarded them as superfluous.
The two sources of pressure were induced experimentally in a 2 × 2 design, with parents receiving instructions eliciting either ego-involvement or task-involvement and with children either failing or succeeding in the task.
In the second vein, we are studying the negative effects of excessive ego-involvement on emotion, performance, and interpersonal behavior, and the efficacy of hypo-egoic states in which people's egos exert minimal influence on their thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Parents may also interpret youth behavior through a bias of self-interest and ego-involvement (e.g., youth behavior reflects strongly on parent as a person), or with judgments and attributions about the child's intentions for behaving that way (Dix et al. 1986).
Americans are complicated and flawed, but like fictional character Tony, beneath our self-involvement and ego-based exterior, we have a courageous human spirit.
"I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement and egos being blown out of proportion," Michael Keaton said while introducing his director in the show-business satire "Birdman," Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
To allow our egos as Kenyans to be offended by international involvement is a misrepresentation that can only give comfort to the hardliners in Kibaki's and Odinga's camps.
Married with a Chinese wife, Hunt is obviously not cowed by media world's big egos: he picked a fight with Lord Sugar over his continued involvement in The Apprentice while having a government advisory role.
