The self in relationships : social-personality theory, research, and new directions /
"According to “social-psychological” personality theories, individuals' everyday experience of anxiety is largely interpersonal in nature, originating in childhood and persistent throughout individuals' lives. At least one of those theories—specifically, Harry Stack Sullivan's in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "According to “social-psychological” personality theories, individuals' everyday experience of anxiety is largely interpersonal in nature, originating in childhood and persistent throughout individuals' lives. At least one of those theories—specifically, Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal theory of personality—proposes that all individuals possess a “self-system” that ideally enables individuals to manage interpersonal anxiety. But what, exactly, is the self that presumably gives rise to the self-system, and which aspects of the self are especially likely to be manifested in individuals' behavior toward significant others? The present book addresses these questions (and others) regarding the self in relationships. Grounded within Wiggins's interpersonal circumplex theory of personality and social behavior (which was influenced greatly by Sullivan's theory), the present book offers extensive coverage of various interpersonal aspects of personality—especially the agentic trait of dominance and the communal trait of nurturance—that may be expressed in certain interdependence processes, such as accommodation following partners' expressions of anger or criticism toward individuals. The book ends with a call for future researchers to integrate perspectives that often are depicted as mutually exclusive (e.g., trait and cognitive schools within personality psychology), in order to attain deeper understanding of the self in relationships than currently exists"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 432 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197687642 0197687644 0197687652 9780197687666 0197687660 9780197687659 |