In short, self-management consist of a set of strategies designed to help person manage behavior with respect to reducing discrepancies from immediate externally set standards. Self-management does not, however, facilitate the assessment of the standards themselves. Thus, while self-management provides ample self-influence in term of how discrepancy reduction should be approached. it provides little self-influence in terms of what should be done and why. In other words, the purposes and importance of the given standards are not addressed by self-management.