Empowerment Through Agency Enhancement

<p>1 Introduction: What Moves Researchers to Take Initiatives to This Interdisciplinary Research Project.- Part I Understanding Agency and Its Development.- 2 Beyond Aloof Cynicism: A Critical Overview of Anthropological Perspectives on Agency and Its Development.- 3 A Psychological Perspective on Agency in the Context of Behavior Change.- 4 Agency as Base for “Bounded Rationality”, Core of “Human Capital”, and Key to “Human Capabilities”.- Part II Enhancing Agency: Its Plausible Mechanisms and Influential Factors.- 5 What Is Done for Facilitating Agency Development in Practice?: Documenting and Crystallizing an Unsung Practical Knowledge of a Third-Country Expert.- 6 Breaking the Poverty Trap: A Psychological Framework for Sustainably Facilitating Agency and Behavior Change in Development Aid Beneficiaries.- 7 User-Centered Approaches to Service Transactions and Agency of Service Users.- Part III Visualizing and Measuring Agency.- 8 Writing, Telling, Expressing Self in Association with Others: Revisiting and Examining Life Record Movement as an Origin of Story-Based Methods in Japan.- 9 The Psychological Measurement of Agency: Recent Developments and Challenges of Psychometrics in Poverty Contexts.- 10 Visualization of the Stages of Agency Development.- 11 Conclusion.</p>