Ten years of dimensional comparison theory: On the development of a theory from educational psychology

J Möller - Educational Psychology Review, 2024 - Springer
Dimensional comparison theory (DCT; Möller & Marsh: Psychological Review, 120 (3), 544–
560), first formulated 10 years ago, describes individuals' internal comparison processes …

A meta-analysis of relations between achievement and self-concept

J Möller, S Zitzmann, F Helm… - Review of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
According to the internal/external frame of reference model, academic achievement has a
strong impact on people's self-concept, both within and between subjects. We conducted a …

On the effects of social, temporal, and dimensional comparisons on academic self-concept.

F Wolff, F Helm, F Zimmermann, G Nagy… - Journal of educational …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Students evaluate their domain-specific abilities by comparing their own achievement in a
certain domain with the achievement of others (social comparison), with their own prior …

An individual participant data meta-analysis of the joint effects of social, dimensional, and temporal comparisons on students' academic self-concepts

F Wolff, J Möller - Educational Psychology Review, 2022 - Springer
Previous research has shown that three comparison types are involved in the formation of
students' academic self-concepts: social comparisons (where students compare their …

Psychological comparison processes and self–concept in relation to five distinct frame–of–reference effects: Pan–human cross–cultural generalizability over 68 …

HW Marsh, PD Parker, J Guo… - European Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The concept of self is central to personhood, but personality research has largely ignored
the relevance of recent advances in self–concept theory: multidimensionality of self–concept …

Habitual aversive and appetitive well-being comparisons in dysphoria: Introducing the Comparison Standards Scale for well-being

N Morina, P Schlechter - Journal of Affective Disorders, 2023 - Elsevier
Background People are constantly preoccupied with how they are doing compared to
different standards. This preoccupation influences judgments of well-being, including …

Averting the next credibility crisis in psychological science: Within-person methods for personalized diagnostics and intervention

J Moeller - Journal for Person-Oriented Research, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Personalizing assessments, predictions, and treatments of individuals is currently a defining
trend in psychological research and applied fields, including personalized learning …

The generalized internal/external frame of reference model: An extension to dimensional comparison theory

J Möller, H Müller-Kalthoff, F Helm… - Frontline Learning …, 2016 - acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au
The dimensional comparison theory (DCT) is based on the internal/external frame of
reference model (I/E model). The model focuses on the effects of external (eg,“How good am …

The effect of compensation size on recovery satisfaction after group service failures: the role of group versus individual service recovery

AK Albrecht, T Schaefers, G Walsh… - Journal of Service …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Two experimental studies reveal that customers' reactions to different levels of recovery
compensation differ between a recovery that occurs at the group level (such that every …

How do I know how I am doing? Use of different types of comparison in judgment of well‐being in patients seeking psychological treatment and healthy controls

N Morina, T Meyer, M Sickinghe - Applied Psychology: Health …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Judgment of well‐being is formed on the spot, and we know little about its foundations. We
aimed at examining the role of comparison standards in informing evaluations of well‐being …