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Self-awareness identity
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- 1Tajfel and Turner (1979) - Social and personal identifyPersonal - brother
Social - academic - 2Brewer and Gardner (1996) - 3 types of selfIndividual - personal traits distinguishing you from others (friendly)
Relational - dyadic relationships that assimilate you to others (brother)
Collective - group membership (academic) - 3Carver and Sheier (1981) - private and public selfPublic self - evaluation apprehension, enjoy success, admiration, adhere to social standards of behaviour
Private self - thoughts, feelings, attitudes - 4Self-awarenessit is a psychological state - traits, feelings, behaviour
Reflective thought
Realization of being an individual (Gallup, 1970) - 5Chronic self-awarenessshortcomings, avoidance behaviour, drinking, suicide
- 6Reduced self-awarenessdeindividuation
no monitoring of own behaviour, impulsive, reckless - 7Self-awareness schemasSelf-schemas - act, think, behave, feel
Self-schematic - important part of self-concept
aschematic - unimportant - 8Development of self-schemas - 6 theoriesHow it should be - 1. control theory of self reg. 2. self-discrepancy theory
Other individuals - 3. Social comparison theory 4. self-evaluation maintenance
Other groups - 5. Social identity theory 6. self-categorization theory - 91. Carver and Sheier (1981, 1998) - Control theory of self regulationself awareness - assess whether goals met
if original self isn't as good as ideal self, steps are taken to change through tests
Private/public standard - 102. Higgins (1987) - Self-discrepancy theoryActual, ideal, ought selves
motivate change and if fail:
actual - ideal: dejection
actual - ought: agitation - 113. Festinger (1954) - Social comparison theoryfor performance generally downward comparison
confirmation of progress from similar people/groups - 124. Tesser (1988) - Self-evaluation maintenanceUpward social comparison:
exaggerate targets ability
change target
distance self from target
devalue comparison dimension - 135. Tajfel and Turner (1979) - Social identity theorypersonal identity
social identity - 146. Turner et al. (1987) - Self-categorization theoryself-categorisation to groups → internalise group
attributes → collective self → Social identity
emphasis of differences and similarities between own and other groups - 15Self-motivesSelf-assessment - seeking for accurate truth of self
Self-verification - seeking info from others to understand self, consistencies
Self-enhancement - sustaining positive image. affirmation and serving theories
seeking favourable information of self - 16Self-esteemSelf enhancing triad - overestimation of aspects, events and unrealistic optimism
Psychologically adaptive - mental health issues such as depression
high self esteem - narcissism, aggression - 17Cultural differencesIndividualist - independent self - associated to internal beliefs
collectivist - interdependent self - - 18—
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