I -- Self-evaluations of own performances as judgments: the internal standard -- Perceptual perspectives in achievement-related contexts -- Scale effects versus changed stimulus-perception -- Causal structures between stimulus-perception, judgments, and mood -- Choice of perspectives -- Aspects of response language -- Threat to self-esteem -- Actual self-evaluations and global self-esteem -- Etiology of unipolar depression -- Summary of hypotheses -- II -- Experiment I. -- Experiment II -- III -- General Discussion -- References.