EFFECTS OF SOCIAL POWER ON ASPIRATION SETTING AND STRIVING.

The article discusses a study which examines the effects of social power on aspiration setting and striving. It focuses whether self-evaluations of performances and accompanying coping behavior do in fact differ when persons are in a situation in which it is likely that they will accept the aspirations others set for them and when they are in a situation in which it is likely will reject such external inductions. The study offers assumptions such that scores are evaluated in terms of internal levels of aspiration, referent social pressures more strongly influence cognition, and discrepancy between an internal level of aspiration and an obtained score generates forces to reduces this discrepancy.