The Relational Self

描述(由申请人提供)： 社会认知的实验研究表明，心理过程是以关系自我为基础的。它暗示着自我与你认识和爱过的人是相关的，或者是联系在一起的，无论是活着的还是已故的。自我会随着这些先前的关系而变化，这些关系会对现在的关系产生影响。与新的人在一起时，给新环境带来的潜力、痛苦和快乐常常被脑海中召唤的特别重要的其他表征所定义(有时也受到限制)。这项研究是在联邦政府的支持下进行的(来自NIMH的R01)，构成了百年来临床概念在日常人际关系中转移的第一个实验演示(例如，Andersen&Glassman，1996)。以前的关系为这个人提供了一个潜在的基础或关系自我的曲目。该项目的目标是准备一本学术书籍，一本全面、批判性和分析性的学术、科学评论，在关于自我、情绪和自我调节的更广泛的文献中定位这项研究，找出文献中一致的主题和空白、需要检查的问题和心理健康的影响。长期以来，临床假设认为人类的痛苦可能源于在新的人际环境中重新体验旧的关系模式，这一假设突出了这项工作的心理健康相关性。需要一本关于关系自我的书，这既是因为心理学和精神病学的研究人员太少，跟上了心理科学的这些经验发现，也是因为医疗保健专业人员和政策制定者也可能发现它们有价值。这本关于关系自我的学术书籍将是第一本讨论移情的社会认知过程的书。它将把实验研究与长期存在的人格和临床理论结合起来，以研究人员和从业者都能接触到的方式强调对心理健康和临床实践的影响。它还将提供一个窗口，通过认知激活和使用的潜在过程了解自我的可变性和稳定性，而认知激活和使用不依赖于有意识的意识或注意力。由于指导框架是人格的如果-然后模型(例如，Mischel&Shoda，1995)，关注自我中有意义的语境变异性，这项关于关系自我的工作在理论上也是综合的，因此在这种方式下具有价值。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Experimental research in social cognition demonstrates the psychological processes at the basis of the relational self. It suggests that the self is relational or bound up with those whom one has known and loved, whether living or deceased. The self varies as a function of these prior relationships, which have an impact on current ones. The potentialities, pains, and pleasures brought to new situations with new people are often defined (and at times constrained) by the particular significant-other representation called to mind. This research, conducted with federal support (an R01 from NIMH), constitutes the first experimental demonstration of the century-old clinical concept transference in everyday interpersonal relations (e.g., Andersen & Glassman, 1996). Previous relationships supply the person with an underlying substrate or repertoire of relational selves. The project's objective is the preparation of an academic book, a scholarly, scientific review that is comprehensive, critical, and analytic, to locate this research in broader literatures on the self, emotion, and self-regulation, identifying consistent themes and gaps in the literature, questions in need of examination, and mental health implications. Longstanding interest in the clinical assumption that human suffering may result from re-experiencing old relationship patterns in new interpersonal contexts highlights the mental health relevance of this work. A book on the relational self is needed both because too few researchers in psychology and psychiatry have kept abreast of these empirical findings in psychological science and because health care professionals and policymakers are also likely to find them of value. This scholarly book on the relational self will be the first to address the social-cognitive process of transference. It will integrate experimental research with longstanding personality and clinical theory to highlight the implications for mental health and clinical practice in ways that are accessible both to researchers and to practitioners. It will also offer a window onto variability and stability in the self through underlying processes of cognitive activation and use, which do not rely on conscious awareness or attention. Because the guiding framework is an if-then model of personality (e.g., Mischel & Shoda, 1995) that focuses on meaningful contextual variability in the self, this work on the relational self is also theoretically integrative and thus of value in this way.