• Academic goals and self-handicapping strategies in university students 

      Ferradás, María del Mar; Freire, Carlos; Valle, Antonio; Núñez, José Carlos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2016-05-23)
      [Abstract] In highly competitive settings like university, the fear of failure leads some students to protect their self-worth using self-handicapping strategies. The present investigation examines to what extent academic ...
    • Motivational profiles in university students. Its relationship with self-handicapping and defensive pessimism strategies 

      Ferradás, María del Mar; Freire, Carlos; Núñez, José Carlos; Piñeiro, Isabel; Rosário, Pedro (Elsevier, 2017-05)
      [Abstract] This article has two objectives: (a) to identify multi-goal profiles differentiated in terms of the use of self-handicapping (behavioral and claimed) and defensive pessimism and (b) to analyze the relevance of ...
    • Self-protection profiles of worth and academic goals in university students 

      Ferradás, María del Mar; Freire, Carlos; Núñez, José Carlos (Instituto Superior de Psicología Aplicada, 2016-09-20)
      [Abstract] This work analyzes the possible existence of self-protection profiles based on a combination of self-handicapping (behavioral and claimed) strategies and defensive pessimism in university students. Similarly, ...