INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS OF SELF-CONCEPT STABILITY

这是一项继续支持有关 人的社会信仰与社会发展的相互影响 维持这些信念的人际环境。一个令人担忧的问题 是一种长期困扰临床医生的现象：倾向 让人们的行为方式使他们的厌恶永久化 心理状态。具体地说，患有癌症的人的倾向 消极的自我观点进入人际循环，使他们 自我概念对变化的抵抗力得到了检验。关注的是 关注的是持负面自我观点的人 寻找那些强化他们消极自我观点的伴侣 以努力增强他们对控制权的看法。 相辅相成的实验室和实地研究试图明确 这种潜在自我的概括性和心理前因 破坏性的倾向。 有消极自我观点的个体寻求 不喜欢它们的人令人费解，因为在某种程度上， 个人希望得到批准，当他们被拒绝时，他们会受到影响。这 暗示着他们可能陷入了欲望的交火中 自我和谐的反馈和自我提升的愿望 反馈。人们试图了解这种现象的性质 交火以及人们逃离交火的策略。 一种潜在的逃避机制自我概念的改变被特别给予 对价。例如，人们通过的过程 他们自己和外部代理人开始自我概念的改变是 考虑过了。 最后一系列研究考察了老年人自我概念的变化。 身份谈判这一更大进程的背景。努力 是为了暴露人们之间关系的机制 伴侣帮助稳定或改变他们的自我观点。此外， 一项纵向调查考察了两人之间的契合度的影响 感知者的评价与对象的自我概念 关于：(A)感知者的评价和自我看法的变化 目标；(B)目标的健康和幸福；(C) 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 人与人之间的知觉人际关系理论 社会思想和社会行动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.