Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on self-processes and humandevelopment provides a unique insight into self-processes from varied theoreticalperspectives. The chapters in this volume develop avant-garde theoretical ideas todrive future, cutting-edge, empirical research and together, in one collectedvolume, make a valuable contribution to scholarly literature on self-processes. Among the themes covered areresurrecting the "I-self", a re-look at the dichotomy between the I-self, and the Me-self based on James'sanalysis, the actualization of human potential, naturalizing and contextualizing the self, hypo-egoic states,personal proficiency networks, competition and performance relationships, achievement motivations, passionand optimal functioning in society, competence and self-worth threat, new interpretations of expectancy-valueresearch, methodological advances in BFLPE research and multilevel models of student achievementmotivation. This monograph, the fourth in the International Advances in Self Research monograph series,provides a wealth of information on new theorizing and provides a platform for generating the next wave ofresearch designed to understand the fundamental role self-processes play in human development.