Introduction: The Self from All Directions -- Identity and Identity Process what are we Talking About -- Identity Status Development and Students' Perception of the University Environment: A Cohort-Sequential Study -- Adolescent Identity Development and Social Context: Towards an Integrative Perspective -- The Problem of Self-Continuity in the Context of Rapid Personal and Cultural Change -- Self-Narratives as Personal Structures of Meaning -- Narrative Self, Understanding, and Action -- The Development of the Ability to Represent Oneself -- Private Goals and Social Influences: The Complexity of Studying Self-System Development -- The Self as "Virtual Machine": Structure Versus Content -- Self-Concept and Information-Processing: Methodological Problems and Theoretical Implications -- On Integrating Cognitive and Motivational Explanations in Psychology -- Low Mutuality of Self- and other-Descriptions as a Risk Factor for Adolescents' Competence and Self-Esteem -- Paranoia and Self-Focused Attention -- The Role of Optimism Versus Pessimism in the Experience of the Self -- Self-Concept and Motivation During Adolescence: Their Influence on School Achievement -- Dimensions of Math and Verbal Self-Concept and the Internal/External Frame of Reference Model -- The Distinction Between Self- and other-Related Failure Outcome Expectancies: An Internal Domain Study of Indian and Norwegian Students -- Cognitive Distinctness of Self - We - Others Schemata and the Tendency to Social Categorization -- Three Dimensions of the Social Self -- Facets of Self in Northern Ireland: Explorations and Further Questions -- Isolating the Collective Self -- What Evidence does One Accept for the Workings of a Self -- Possum, Ergo Sum-Nequeo, Ergo Sum Qui Sum -- The Self and Taking an Intentional Stance -- The Liberating and Constraining Aspects of Self: Why the Freed Bird Finds a New Cage -- Discussion: A Multifaceted Multilevel Attack on the Self -- Author Index.