Here is what I need; I just don't know if it is possible. And if it is, I need help with how to make it happen:

I have 40 different users who need to have the ability to edit and publish/unpublish their own K2 items.

So my plan was to create a user group for each user. However after testing one of these groups, I found that yes, a user assigned to a specific group that can only edit their own items. However because they also need to have control over publishing/unpublishing their own items, when I enable that publishing option, others not included in that specific group can also publish and unpublish their items.

So as an example, John is the only one who can edit John's items, however Lucy can also publish or unpublish John's items.

And this is something I can't have happen.

That said, is there another setting to restrict users to see only specified content, e.g. when John logs in all he sees is his content, and when Lucy logs in, she only sees her content.

Please advise...

Thanks!
Doreen