People with a Performance-Avoid Orientation Focus on Demonstrating Their Competence

question 90

Multiple Choice

People with a performance-avoid orientation focus on demonstrating their competence so that

• A) others will think favorably of them.
• B) others will not think poorly of them.
• C) they will think favorably of themselves.
• D) they will not think poorly of themselves.
• E) they will not cause others to think poorly of themselves.

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