Self-complexity, self-evaluation, and depression: An examination of form and content within the self-schema.

Woolfolk, Robert L.; Novalany, James; Gara, Michael A.; Allen, Lesley A.; al., et

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“…Individuals must model themselves in order to understand not only what they are going through but also what might be causing what they are going through and what actions influence the following outcomes. In psychology, this self-image, or self-schema, has been used to explain the way in which an individual integrates the social feedback they get ( Ahadzadeh et al., 2017 ; Lewicki, 1984 ; Woolfolk et al., 1995 ). Self-schema essentially shows how information is integrated about the self in relation to its social desirability (understand social salience).…”

Section: Socially Predicted Selfmentioning

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Feeling our place in the world: an active inference account of self-esteem

Albarracin,

Bouchard-Joly,

Sheikhbahaee

et al. 2024

Neuroscience of Consciousness

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Self-esteem, the evaluation of one’s own worth or value, is a critical aspect of psychological well-being and mental health. In this paper, we propose an active inference account of self-esteem, casting it as a sociometer or an inferential capacity to interpret one’s standing within a social group. This approach allows us to explore the interaction between an individual’s self-perception and the expectations of their social environment.When there is a mismatch between these perceptions and expectations, the individual needs to adjust their actions or update their self-perception to better align with their current experiences. We also consider this hypothesis in relation with recent research on affective inference, suggesting that self-esteem enables the individual to track and respond to this discrepancy through affective states such as anxiety or positive affect. By acting as an inferential sociometer, self-esteem allows individuals to navigate and adapt to their social environment, ultimately impacting their psychological well-being and mental health.

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Section: Socially Predicted Selfmentioning

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Feeling our place in the world: an active inference account of self-esteem

Albarracin,

Bouchard-Joly,

Sheikhbahaee

et al. 2024

Neuroscience of Consciousness

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Contextualized Self‐Representations in Adulthood

Diehl

Hay

2007

Journal of Personality

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Theorizing has focused on individuals' self-representations as a psychological resource for coping with life stress and developmental challenges in adulthood. Many of the prominent theories have conceptualized self-representations with regard to specific social contexts (e.g., role-specific selfrepresentations) and have examined specific structural organizations of the self-concept with regard to psychological adjustment. This article describes research on the associations between self-concept structures and psychological well-being in adulthood. Specific emphasis is given to the feature of self-concept differentiation (SCD). Most research suggests that a high level of SCD tends to indicate self-fragmentation and tends to be associated with poorer adjustment and psychological well-being. Findings from a daily diary study with adults of all ages are reported showing that different levels of SCD were in a consistent and meaningful way related to the daily endorsement of positive and negative self-attributes. Daily self-representations, in turn, were significantly related to individuals' level of daily negative affect and to intra-individual variation in negative affect. These findings suggest that SCD may exert its effect on adjustment and psychological well-being through specific ways of processing self-related information.The last two decades have seen important extensions of self-concept theory into research on adult development and aging (Brandtstädter & Greve, 1994;Filipp & Klauer, 1986;Markus & Herzog, 1991). In particular, theorists have focused on individuals' self-representations as a psychological resource for coping with the challenges of adulthood and old age (Brandtstädter & Greve, 1994;Freund & Smith, 1999;Greve & Wentura, 2003). 1 Many of these conceptualizations have focused on adults' self-representations with regard to specific social contexts (e.g., role-specific self-representations) and have examined the associations of different structural organizations of contextualized self-representations with different indicators of psychological adjustment (Campbell, Assanand, & DiPaula, 2003;Kling, Ryff, & Essex, 1997;Linville, 1987;Showers, Abramson, & Hogan, 1998). This article has three major parts. First, we will review the theoretical and empirical reasons that have served as background for studying contextualized self-representations in adulthood. Second, we will review research focusing on the associations between different self-concept organizations and indicators of psychological adjustment. In this review, we will highlight only some of the major findings with regard to certain self-concept organizations and will focus specifically on the associations of self-concept differentiation (SCD) and measures of psychological well-being. Third, we will present findings from cross-sectional studies and from a daily diary study examining the effect of SCD and daily self-representations on daily affect.Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Manfred Diehl, Human Development...

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Gender in Psychology

Stewart

McDermott

2004

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

365

218

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Gender is increasingly understood as defining a system of power relations embedded in other power relations. Psychological research on gender-which has most often focused on analysis of sex differences, within-sex variability, and gender roles-has begun to incorporate this new understanding. By drawing on three resources, psychologists can make more rapid progress in understanding gender's significance for psychological processes: social science theories that link the individual and social levels of analysis; constructs (such as identity) that bridge the social and individual levels; and conceptual tools generated in feminist theory, perhaps especially intersectionality. We review these resources, cite active research programs that have employed them, and conclude by offering some practical suggestions about how to incorporate these resources into our research.

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Self-complexity, self-evaluation, and depression: An examination of form and content within the self-schema.

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Feeling our place in the world: an active inference account of self-esteem

Feeling our place in the world: an active inference account of self-esteem

Contextualized Self‐Representations in Adulthood

Gender in Psychology

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