Self-ideal-self discrepancy as a defensive style

Self-ideal-self discrepancy as a defensive style.

T HERE IS an assumption widely maintained in personality research that a large discrepancy between experienced self and ideal self reflects emotional disturbance, while its absence is a sign of emotional health. The most important and extensive clinical application of this assumption has been the Q-sort studies of Rogerian therapists postulating that productive change in therapy coincides with ...

learning style, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension

this thesis attempts to measure learning styles, self efficacy and intrinsic motivation as predictors of iranian ielts reading comprehension. in order to address this issue, a quantitative study was conducted on some randomly selected intact students at ferdowsi university. these two groups were assigned as they were undergraduate (ba=91) and graduate (ma =74) students; they were all aged betwe...

Neural correlates of reflection on actual versus ideal self-discrepancy

Subjective feelings of actual/ideal self-discrepancy vary across individuals and influence one's own affective states. However, the neural correlates of actual/ideal self-discrepancy and their genetic individual differences remain unknown. We investigated neural correlates of actual/ideal self-discrepancy and their associations with the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) tha...

[The effects of ideal-real self discrepancy and irrational belief on self acceptance].

The purpose of the present study was to clarify the effects of positive ideal-real self discrepancy, negative ideal-real self discrepancy, and irrational belief on self acceptance. A total of 464 university and vocational school students, an average of 21.1 years old, participated. Results confirmed the prediction that the smaller the positive ideal-real discrepancy, and the larger negative ide...

The Self-Defensive Cognition of Self-Defense