INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS OF SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY

这是一项继续支持研究的请求， 人们的社会信仰和宗教信仰的相互影响 人际环境来维持这些信念。 一个担忧 是一个长期困扰临床医生的现象： 让人们的行为方式延续他们自己的厌恶 心理状态。 具体来说， 消极的自我观念进入人际关系的循环，使他们的 自我概念非常抗拒变化进行检查。 注意力 关注的是有消极自我观念的人 寻找那些强化他们消极自我观点的伴侣 以增强他们的控制感 补充的实验室和现场研究试图详细说明 这种潜在自我的一般性和心理前因， 破坏性的倾向。 有消极自我观点的人倾向于寻求 不喜欢他们的人是令人困惑的，因为在某种程度上， 个人希望得到认可，当他们被拒绝时，他们会受苦。 这 表明他们可能陷入了一种欲望 自我和谐的反馈和自我提升的愿望 反馈 试图理解这种现象的本质， 交叉火力以及人们逃离它们的策略。 一种潜在的逃避机制自我概念的变化被赋予特殊的 考虑. 例如，人们通过这些过程 自我概念的改变是由自身和外界因素共同发起的 考虑了 最后一系列的研究探讨了自我概念的变化， 更大的身份协商过程的背景下。 努力 揭示了人们之间的关系 伴侣帮助稳定或改变他们的自我观点。 此外，委员会认为， 一项纵向调查研究了 知觉者的评价和目标者的自我概念 关于：（a）感知者评价和自我观点的变化 目标;（B）目标的健康和幸福;（c）目标的 关系的质量和持续时间。 这项研究的最终目标是开发一种真正的 人际理论的人的知觉，包括 社会思想和社会行为之间错综复杂的相互作用。

This is a request for continuing support for research concerns the reciprocal influence of people's social beliefs and the interpersonal environments that sustain those beliefs. One concern is with a phenomenon that has long puzzled clinicians: the tendency for people to behave in ways that perpetuate their own aversive psychological states. Specifically, the propensity for people with negative self-views to enter interpersonal cycles that make their self-concepts very resistant to change is examined. Attention is focused on the possibility that people with negative self-views seek relationship partners who reinforce their negative self-views in an effort to bolster their perceptions of control. 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 self-congruent feedback and a desire for self-enhancing feedback. Attempts are made to understand the nature of such crossfires as well as strategies through which people escape them. One potential escape mechanism self-concept change is given special consideration. For example, the processes through which people themselves and outside agents initiate self-concept change are considered. The final series of studies examines 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, a longitudinal investigation examines 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 ultimate goal of this research is to develop a truly interpersonal theory of person perception that embraces the intricate interplay between social thought and social action.