SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY AND INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES

自我概念稳定性和人际交往过程

• 批准号: 3069853
• 负责人: WILLIAM B SWANN
• 金额: $ 6.74万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1984
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1984-09-01 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3069853
• 关键词: behavior test; belief; human subject; interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; questionnaires; self concept; self destructive behavior; social behavior; videotape /videodisc

The research concerns the dynamic interplay between social beliefs and the interpersonal environments that sustain those beliefs. Once concern is with a phenomenon that has long puzzled clinician: the tendency for people to behave in ways that perpetuate their own aversive psychological states. Attention if focused on the possibility that people with negative self-views seek relationship partners who reinforce their low self-esteem or depression, thereby creating interpersonal cycles that make their self-concepts very resistant to change. Complementary lab and field studies attempt to specify the generality and psychological antecedents of such potentially self-destructive tendencies. The tendency for individuals with negative self-views to seek people who dislike them is puzzling because, at some level, such individuals want approval and suffer when they are rejected. This suggests that they may be caught in a crossfire between a desire for negative and positive feedback. Attempts are made to identify the processes that underlie such crossfires. In addition, mechanisms for escaping them such crossfires are explored. One such mechanism -- self-concept change -- is examined. For example, the processes through which people themselves and outside agents initiate self-concept change are considered. The final series of studies examine self-concept change in the context of the larger process of identity negotiation. Efforts are made to lay bare the mechanisms whereby people's relationship partners help stabilize or change their self-views,. Furthermore, longitudinal investigations examine the impact of the fit between the appraisals of perceivers and the self-conceptions of targets on: (a) change in the appraisals of perceivers and self-views of targets; (b) the health and happiness of targets and (c) the quality and duration of the relationships. The complexity and breadth of the issues under scrutiny require deepening and broadening of the PI's knowledge base. The renewal will facilitate this goal by enriching the intellectual environment at the applicant's home institution, releasing time to take relevant coursework, and making it possible to take one or more extended visits to other institutions. Such experiences will enhance the applicant's ability to pursue his goal of developing a comprehensive theory of social perception that embraces the reciprocal influence of social thought and social action.

这项研究关注的是社会信仰和社会信仰之间的动态互动 维持这些信念的人际环境。曾经的担忧 是一种长期困扰临床医生的现象： 人们的行为方式使他们自己的厌恶永久化 心理状态。如果将注意力集中在以下可能性上 有负面自我观点的人寻找能够强化自我的伴侣 他们缺乏自尊或抑郁，从而造成人际关系 使他们的自我概念非常抗拒改变的周期。 相辅相成的实验室和实地研究试图明确一般性 以及这种潜在的自我毁灭的心理先兆 倾向。 有负面自我观点的人倾向于寻找那些 不喜欢他们是令人费解的，因为在某种程度上，这些人想要 批准，当他们被拒绝时，他们会受到影响。这表明他们可能 在对消极和积极的渴望之间陷入交火 反馈。试图确定其背后的过程 这样的交火。此外，逃脱它们的机制如 探索了交叉火力。一种这样的机制--自我概念的改变-- 被检查过了。例如，人们自己通过的过程 并考虑了外部因素对自我概念的影响。 最后一系列研究考察了语境中自我概念的变化 身份协商这一更大的过程。正在努力地铺设 赤裸裸的机制，人们的关系伴侣帮助 稳定或改变他们的自我观点。此外，纵向 调查考察了两项评估之间的契合度的影响 感知者和目标的自我概念：(A) 对接受者的评价和对目标的自我看法；(B)健康和 目标的幸福感和(C)目标的质量和持续时间 两性关系。 受审查的问题的复杂性和广度要求 深化和拓宽了PI的知识基础。续签将 通过丰富知识环境来促进这一目标 申请人的原籍机构、释放时间采取相关措施 课程作业，并使其有可能进行一次或多次延长访问 给其他机构。这样的经历将提高申请者的 有能力追求他的目标，发展一种全面的 接受社会互动影响的社会认知 思想和社会行动。