Self-Concept Stability and Change

自我概念的稳定性和变化

• 批准号: 9319570
• 负责人: William Swann
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-02-01 至 1999-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9319570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Self; Concept; Stability; Change

9319570 SWANN ABSTRACT Recent research suggests that people's self-concepts lead them to behave in ways that make their self-concepts very resistant to change. For example, people seem to prefer and choose relationship partners who confirm and validate their self-views. This occur seven if their self-views are negative: in one study, married people with negative self-views committed themselves to spouses who held them in low esteem. Their behaviors, then, are reminiscent of Groucho Marz's quip, "I'd never join a club that would have me as a member." The investigators have studied these processes with emphasis on specifying why people with negative self-views behave as they do. They have also considered how these activities may make it difficult to change people's self-views. One remaining puzzle concerns the conflicted feelings people with negative self-views have about the evaluations they receive. On the one hand, such persons prefer and seek unfavorable evaluations. Nevertheless,they feel terrible when they actually receive such evaluations! The investigators hope to find out why people with negative self-views routinely behave in ways that generate such ambivalence. They will also try to determine the conditions under which they will break out of such vicious cycles. This research is designed to provide a deeper understanding of the feelings and thoughts that underlie the self-defeating behaviors of people with negative self-views. As such, it is likely to provide a perspective on these behaviors that is ultimately useful in developing strategies of prevention.

摘要最近的研究表明，人们的自我概念导致他们的行为方式使他们的自我概念非常难以改变。例如，人们似乎更喜欢和选择那些确认和验证他们自我观点的伴侣。如果他们的自我看法是消极的，就会出现这种情况：在一项研究中，有消极自我看法的已婚人士会对那些不尊重他们的配偶做出承诺。他们的行为让人想起Groucho Marz的俏皮话，“我永远不会加入一个愿意让我成为会员的俱乐部。”研究人员对这些过程进行了研究，重点是说明为什么有消极自我观的人会有这样的行为。他们还考虑了这些活动如何使人们难以改变自己的看法。剩下的一个谜题是关于消极自我观的人对他们所得到的评价的矛盾感受。一方面，这些人喜欢并寻求不利的评价。然而，当他们真正得到这样的评价时，他们会感觉很糟糕！研究人员希望找出为什么自我认知消极的人通常会产生这种矛盾心理。他们还将设法确定在何种条件下才能摆脱这种恶性循环。这项研究的目的是为了更深入地了解那些消极自我观的人的自我挫败行为背后的感受和想法。因此，它很可能为这些行为提供一个视角，最终有助于制定预防战略。