0 making your own decisions and organizing your own work rather than being told what to do by managers, teachers, etc.:
1 → self-invested :
a self-directed retirement plan/IRA
A comparison of aggressive/rejected and nonaggressive - rejected children's interpretations of self-directed and other-directed rejection.
All three studies involve patient samples that are characterized by high levels of impulsivity chiefly manifested as either self-directed or outwardly directed aggression.
Second, we concurrently assessed perpetrator- and self-directed attributions using theoretically driven quantification: a clinical interview designed for this purpose.
It is also possible that children with anxiety or depressive symptoms experience some self-directed anger because of feelings of inadequacy.
On the flipside, a self-directed retirement plan allows full control of assets, while the purchase of an annuity is irrevocable.
The corresponding concept for self-directed would be egotropic, as we write in other papers.
My and others' caution about what self-directed responses indicate should not be taken to mean that some animals do not know who they are.
Thus, the emphasis is on self-directed and conscious rule discovery.
