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self-awareness theory
self-awareness theory In this source, self-awareness theory refers to the idea that after personal failure, people who are strongly self-focused may feel intense distress and turn to immediately rewarding behaviors such as drinking to escape the self-relevance of those emotions.
In this source, self-awareness theory refers to the idea that after personal failure, people who are strongly self-focused may feel intense distress and turn to immediately rewarding behaviors such as drinking to escape the self-relevance of those emotions. It frames such behavior as a maladaptive way of regulating emotion.