Week Four Assignment: Background Searching in the Library Resources

Ana Rivera

February 3, 2019

Week Four Assignment

            1. Electronic Reference:

·       Ebrary: ProQuest Ebook Central: Self-Serving Bias.

Book: Narcissism and the Self: Dynamics of Self-Preservation in Social Interaction, Personality Structure, Subjective Experience, and Psychopathology, R. Behrendt.

·       A new idea about the topic is the individual’s need to maintain a narcissistic personality.

·       Some subtopics in the search are psychopathology, self-preservation, personality structure, subjective experience, ethics, etc.

·       Questions I came up while I was reading were: how many times have I experienced self-serving bias traits? In what situations? And I keep trying to remember of situations that probably I have perceived such traits.

·       Distinctive: dependence

Broad: psychopathology

Narrow: superego

Related: interpersonal and social dynamics

·       The article from last week (Wikipedia article) and this one is completely different thus because the electronic reference I am using this time is an eBook which is very extent on the topic I am searching. They have similarities on aspects of the topic but provides more information in an elevated context.

2. Book from Search It, the Library’s Catalog:

·       Name of the book: The Narcissistic teammate: effects of narcissistic subtypes on self-serving attributional biases. Author: Ashley Brown

·       Subject Headings: narcissism, Washington State, psychological aspects, college students, Eastern Washington University, thesis, department of Psychology.  

·       About the description: it explains what self-serving bias is and how it relates to the narcissist personality.

·       To get a copy of the book I must request the resource from another library since is not available through WSU Libraries. 

3. eBook from Search It:

·       Irrational and Overrated: Is our Unrealistic Self-Perception connected to Educational Achievements? Author: Dominik Piehlmaier 

·       Subject Headings: Self-confidence, Germany, Self-esteem in adolescence.

·       This eBook seems to be a study through a questionnaire on the relationship between education and confidence in situations of uncertainty.

4. Reflection:

                  This week assignment was a little confusing at the beginning but once reading the steps                        twice and following them paying really attention I was able to do complete it. I have to                        say that where I got more confused was on the first step and to be honest, I am not sure if                    did the right thing that is on the description thus I because I thought I was doing the                              wrong  thing but I double checked the steps and I believed I did the right thing so I                              continued. I really liked this new way to search for resources that I did not have idea that                      this was possible. Without a doubt, this is a great tool on how to look for future research,                      I find this as a easier way to find articles and different resources that help with research.