agentic

From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989).

Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.

If helping is a variation on the more general agentic theme of self-assertion and display, one might expect that power motivation would predict other forms of agentic striving in friendship experiences.

Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.